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Juliette Cubanski, Ph.D., MPP, MPH

Juliette Cubanski is a Principal Policy Analyst with the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington, D.C. As a senior member of the Foundation’s Medicare Policy Project, Dr. Cubanski is extensively involved in the Foundation’s efforts to monitor and analyze the implementation of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
She has researched, written, and spoken extensively on Medicare’s Part D prescription drug benefit since joining the Foundation in 2004, with an emphasis on assessing how the Part D plan marketplace is evolving and how Part D coverage affects beneficiary access to and spending on prescription drugs. She is also involved in analytic
activities related to the Medicare Advantage program and Medicare’s long-term financial condition.

Dr. Cubanski has focused her research and professional experience in the policy areas of Medicare and Medicaid, private health insurance coverage, and health care access and financing, both at the national and state levels. Her doctoral research at Harvard University examined policies to reduce Medicare prescription drug spending and the potential impacts of the Medicare-approved Prescription Drug Discount Card
Program, which was enacted as part of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.

Prior to her research at Harvard, she was the principal coordinator for the California Health Policy Roundtable Project of the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she organized panel discussions to examine health care policies in California and health policy proposals being
considered by the California State Legislature. Dr. Cubanski has authored numerous policy briefs, reports and peer-reviewed published articles on Medicare, Medicaid, and the uninsured. She was elected to
membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance in 2005 and is also a member of AcademyHealth. Dr. Cubanski earned a Ph.D. in health policy at Harvard University, a Masters of Public Policy and a Masters of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University
of California at Los Angeles.