PolicyLab

Emma Golub (she/her) is a policy analyst at PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Ms. Golub supports PolicyLab’s work on the payment reform necessary to scale and sustain health care interventions that support healthy development in early childhood and advance health equity. She focuses on HealthySteps, a dyadic care model that promotes healthy early childhood development in pediatric primary care. Her role also includes serving as the strategist for PolicyLab’s Family & Community Health Portfolio.

Ms. Golub most recently served as a senior health policy analyst at the Center for Health and Research Transformation (CHRT) at the University of Michigan. At CHRT, she supported the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) in its strategic planning to transition Michigan’s demonstration project for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid into a dual eligible special needs plan model. Ms. Golub also supported MDHHS’ strategic planning process for long-term care and other health policy research projects.

Prior to her role at CHRT, Ms. Golub worked in global health at Abt Associates. Her focus was a project that engaged private sector actors and fostered public-private engagement to support the achievement of global health goals in sexual and reproductive health, maternal and child health, and HIV. Ms. Golub’s public health career began in Amman, Jordan on a project working to improve health outcomes for women and children. 

Ms. Golub has a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in American Studies and Middle Eastern Studies.