National Coordinating Center

Co-Director of Policies for Action, Senior Fellow

Laudan (Laudy) Aron, MA, is a Senior Fellow with the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center and co-directs Urban’s cross-center initiative on the social determinants of health. Her work focuses on how social welfare programs and policies can best support healthy human development across the life course and over time and place.

Deputy Director

Katie Chapline is a policy program manager in the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center. She oversees program operations and evaluation for Policies for Action, a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that supports innovative research on how public- and private-sector laws and policies can help build a culture of health in America.

Co-Director of Policies for Action, Senior Fellow

Lisa Dubay, PhD, is a Senior Fellow with the Urban Institute’s Health Policy Center and co-directs Urban’s cross-center initiative on the social determinants of health. Dr. Dubay is a nationally recognized expert on the Medicaid and CHIP programs, and is currently involved in major evaluations of delivery system reform.

Program Manager

Josh Smith is a Senior Project Manager in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Since joining the Urban team in 2014 he has taken on tasks including proposal development, purchase orders, subcontract/consultant set-up, and budgeting.