Elizabeth Lukanen serves as the Deputy Director for SHADAC, overseeing center research and providing strategic direction and oversight. With 20 years of experience in the health policy arena, Ms. Lukanen specializes in managing complex projects and translating quantitative findings into actionable, policy-relevant information.

Andrea Stewart serves as a Research Fellow at SHADAC, leading SHADAC’s efforts to track and report health insurance coverage data from major federal surveys, and is involved in several other ongoing projects, including an effort to explore the potential for the creation of a Medicaid Equity Monitoring Tool.

Sharon Stern is the Assistant Division Chief for Employment Characteristics in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division, overseeing statistics on the labor force, health insurance and disability from several surveys. She has authored a variety of papers on topics related to poverty, disability, and health insurance.

Robert Hest joined SHADAC in 2017, providing expertise in survey data, quantitative data analysis, data visualization, and health coverage policy. Mr. Hest leads SHADAC’s work monitoring and investigating developments in the measurement of health insurance coverage and health care access, affordability and utilization in federal survey data.