Andrea M. Ducas, MPH, is a program associate with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Quality/Equality health care team. Having joined the Foundation in 2012, she praises its “distinguished reputation in public health and health care, and its unique vantage point at the nexus of health policy development and program implementation.” In her role, Andrea contributes to the Quality/Equality team's signature program, Aligning Forces for Quality, along with the team's consumer engagement, care coordination for high-needs patients, and payment and delivery system reform efforts.
Previously, Ducas served as development and communications associate for the Center for Family Representation (CFR), a non-profit law and policy organization in New York City. As CFR's first development hire, her work included grants management, proposal writing, foundation research and targeting, programmatic reporting, and communications. She also established and managed its junior board of directors, on which she now volunteers.
As the chief marketing officer of EveryDoc.com, Ducas helped to develop and design an online community that sought to enhance the exchange of health information between medical professionals, enable patient feedback to promote practice improvement, and empower patients to seek out clinicians that met their own individual needs and preferences.
Ducas earned a BA in International Relations from Brown University and an MPH in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She was a 2011 Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) David A.Winston Health Policy Scholar, and received Columbia’s Regina Loewenstein Prize for Academic Excellence in Health Policy and Management. She also served as a summer advisory associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she helped a struggling community hospital improve patient access. Her work as an intern with the New York City Office of Citywide Health Insurance Access helped the agency refine its methodology for quantifying New York’s undocumented, uninsured population.
Born in Florida, Ducas currently resides in Jersey City with her husband, Patrick Toussaint, and their Beagle, Maya. They enjoy international travel, concerts, running, and spending time with friends.
