Carla Willis

Carla Willis serves as the Director of the Performance, Quality, and Outcomes within the Performance and Care Management Office of the Georgia Medicaid program. She oversees multi-disciplinary teams that focus on predictive analytics, quality measurement, and performance improvement. She works to define the populations of interest to the Georgia Medicaid program and captures key outcomes for each group using standard and custom quality of care indicators. She also works to stand-up and evaluate Georgia Medicaid 1115 and 1915 waiver programs.

Dr. Willis is a member of the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Scorecard Measures Gap Development Technical Expert Panel (TEP) and the Medicaid and CHIP Core Set Measure Feasibility Workgroup. She has recent publications in Contraception and the Maternal and Child Health Journal. Much of her current interest involves using health policy levers to improve maternal and child health outcomes and to reduce the rate of maternal mortality, particularly for women in the Georgia Medicaid program.

Dr. Willis serves as a Part Time Instructor in the School of Public Health at GSU. She teaches graduate level courses in health policy and health care systems along with an undergraduate course in maternal and child health. Prior to joining Georgia Medicaid, Dr. Willis was an Associate Project Director at the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) where she led both the Medicaid Business and Policy Team and GHPC’s Health Reform Workgroup. She previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Office of the Associate Director for Policy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and worked as a Health Policy Analyst at the Government Accountability Office.