Staff
Robert J. McGrath, Executive Director of The New Hampshire Health Information Center
Email: robert.mcgrath@unh.edu
Telephone: 862-5047
Robert J. McGrath is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of New Hampshire and the Executive Director of the New Hampshire Health Information Center. He is also the Director of Research and Informatics for the NH Institute for Health Policy and Practice.
Bob holds masters degrees from both the Harvard University School of Public Health and from The Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. Recently, he completed a Ph.D. in Health and Social Policy from The Heller School through a federal health policy fellowship from the Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) where he examined the implementation of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in the states. He currently directs the NH Connects for Health Project. This project is examining the feasibility of creating a statewide interconnected health system in NH. Bob’s other work focuses on data and information, specifically around health and socioeconomic status indicators linked with indicators of health status in the Northeast.
Previous to his work at the NHHIC, Bob worked as a health-planning analyst for Healthsource, now part of CIGNA Corporation, and also served as an intern health policy adviser in the New Hampshire Governor's office under Governor Jeanne Shaheen in 1998. His recent papers and publications include the Implementation Report of Welfare Reform in New Hampshire and a co-authored chapter in the edited text, The New Politics of State Health Policy entitled “State Legislatures and Health Policy in the Market Era” with John McDonough, Ph.D. Bob’s research interests include health information and informatics, state level health policy, health politics, and program implementation.