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The focuses on creating an affordable health care system built on strong primary care and partnerships that improve health outcomes for all.
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Aasta Thielke, MPH, is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Evidence-based Policy who leads and manages the review, synthesis, and quality assessment of evidence and policy issues on a wide range of policy-related and clinical topics. She has a longstanding interest in the use of evidence in policymaking and stakeholder engagement within public decision-making processes. Ms. Thielke also has experience leading group training sessions for state officials on evaluating the methodological quality of evidence, the strength of a body of research evidence, and how to incorporate such assessments into policy development. June 2020
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