The Executive Director of IVI, assisted by a core group of subject matter experts on the Leadership Team, oversees the key activities of IVI and ensures it meets its objectives.
Team Members
Jennifer Bright, MPA
Executive Director
Jennifer Bright, MPA
Jennifer Bright is Executive Director for the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI). Mrs. Bright brings over two decades of health care policy, issue management, patient advocacy and executive leadership to the position. Jennifer is also the founder and President of Momentum Health Strategies, where she works with clients to promote integrated behavioral health care, patient engagement, quality improvement in hospitals and prevention of healthcare-associated infections. She most recently served as Executive Director for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), a non-profit medical society representing physicians, advanced practice nurses, and researchers with expertise in healthcare epidemiology and infection prevention. Jennifer’s prior executive leadership at the National Mental Health Association (now Mental Health America) focused on advancing policy initiatives at the state and local level. Her career has also included issue analysis and strategic issue management for corporate clients at state-focused lobbying firms. Jennifer earned her degree in political science from Trinity College, Washington, D.C. and her master’s degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University, concentrating on policy analysis and program management.
Jason Shafrin, PhD
Director of Research
Jason Shafrin, PhD
Jason Shafrin, PhD is the Director of Research at the Innovation and Value Initiative. He also serves as a Director and Senior Research Economist at Precision Health Economics. Dr. Shafrin is an expert in value-based purchasing methods, quality of care measures, discrete choice experiment survey design, health insurance claims data analysis, digital medicine, and value frameworks. Dr. Shafrin has not only developed reports to advice government agencies such as the Institute of Medicine and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but his research has been published in leading journals of economics, medicine, and health policy including JAMA, Health Affairs, Health Economics, andHealth Services Research. Prior to joining PHE, Dr. Shafrin served as a Policy Researcher for Acumen, LLC. In this role, Dr. Shafrin helped the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implement a number of provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including the design of value-based purchasing programs for hospitals, physicians and home health agencies. Dr. Shafrin received a BA and BS in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Mark Linthicum, MPP
Director of Scientific Communications
Mark Linthicum, MPP
Suepattra May-Slater, PhD, MPH
Associate Director, Patient Engagement
Suepattra May-Slater, PhD, MPH
Devin Incerti, PhD
Lead Economist, OSVP
Devin Incerti, PhD
Jeroen Jansen, PhD
Lead Scientific Advisor, OSVP
Jeroen Jansen, PhD
Jeroen P Jansen, PhD, is Lead Scientific Advisor of the Open-Source Value Project (OSVP) at the Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI). The OSVP is an open, collaborative, and consensus-based process for the development of open-source cost-effectiveness models and other tools for value assessment of medical interventions. Apart from his leadership role at the OSVP, Dr. Jansen is Adjunct Professor of Health Research & Policy (Epidemiology) at Stanford University and Chief Scientist for Evidence Synthesis and Decision Modeling at the Precision Medicine Group (Precision Xtract). He has 15 years of research experience in the areas of evidence synthesis and cost-effectiveness modeling and has published extensively on both applied and methods research in his areas of expertise. He is co-author of a textbook on network meta-analysis for decision-making.
Hanh Nguyen, MA
Project Coordinator
Hanh Nguyen, MA
Ms. Nguyen holds an MA in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University and a BS in Psychology from James Madison University.
