Robert Richards

Robert has over 12 years of experience in academic research and consulting on healthcare-related topics and quantitative data analysis. During his graduate studies at Duke University, he completed multiple research projects end-to-end, both coauthored and solo-authored, related to the politics of health policy in the United States. These involved a wide range of methodologies, from surveys and survey experiments to advanced statistical and economic modeling. Robert worked as a senior analyst at Leavitt Partners for two years, during which time he led the quantitative analysis on multiple client projects related to economic impacts of Medicaid expansion, value-based payment adoption and strategy, market landscape analysis, and network construction and composition. At Leavitt Partners and later at Milliman, he has led the methodological and dataset design aspects of a referential data product for use by healthcare industry analysts and executives.