What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
Outside of the office, you can find me at my local rock-climbing gym or experimenting with new baking recipes in the kitchen.
What’s at the top of your bucket list
Aspiring to one day write and publish a book (topic still to be determined) and/or learning how to bake the perfect croissant.
Experience
Ryan Nguyen brings a strong foundation in health policy research, including Medicare quality measurement and improvement, to his work at FCG. His recent projects include a multi-state landscape analysis and evaluation of suicide prevention strategies and support of the development of a state housing governance report, including detailed analysis of the housing landscape, key entities, and actionable governance recommendations. Additional projects he has worked on include qualitative research and evaluation of Medicaid eligibility systems in several states, a retrospective evaluation of the Rhode Island Department of Health’s data and analytics strategy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the development and launch of a statewide behavioral health initiative addressing workforce shortages, access barriers, and health inequities in care delivery.
Prior to FCG, Ryan was a Public Health Analyst at RTI International, where he supported CMS initiatives including the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality Reporting Program and an effort to reduce avoidable hospitalizations in nursing facilities. While completing his MPH in Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, he worked with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners to embed a health equity lens into clinical care guidelines. Ryan also holds a BSPH in Health Policy and Management from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.