What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
I love gardening – a perfect day is working in the garden, picking a bunch of vegetables, and cooking a big dinner for friends.
What’s at the top of your bucket list?
Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.
Experience
Olivia Burke is Managing Director of Faulkner Consulting Group, where she has worked since 2014, responsible for Consulting Services and staffing across all FCG projects and clients. FCG brings an analytic perspective to the design, implementation, and assessment of state health policy initiatives. Her work with FCG has focused primarily on the design and implementation of alternative payment models for state Medicaid programs that advance population health and health equity goals. She has experience designing Medicaid payment models across settings and populations, having worked on models for primary care, behavioral health, and long-term care providers and populations. Olivia brings expertise in data analysis and financial modeling to the design of payment models and programs, and to the implementation of these initiatives through state and federal budget and authority pathways. In addition to her work with state Medicaid programs, she has led Certificate of Need assessments and conducted research and modeling for State-based Exchanges seeking to understand the impact of federal actions and COVID-19-related effects on individual and small group health insurance markets.
Olivia previously served as part of HealthSource RI’s implementation team, where she played a key role in the design and development of analytic tools to support operations and financial controls. Prior to FCG, Olivia worked as a research assistant at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and The Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, providing research and analytic support to various projects at the intersection of public health, environmental sciences, and cultural studies. Olivia holds a BA in Sustainable Development and Anthropology from Columbia College