2026 | Researcher Is Named Director of Center for State Health Policy at Institute for Health

Lindsay Shea, a nationally recognized scholar and Medicaid policy expert who helped pioneer new approaches to autism research, has been named director of the Center for State Health Policy, a unit of the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.

She also will hold a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Shea will begin her new role leading CSHP, which provides impartial policy analysis and research and pressing state health policy issues, this July. She is currently an associate professor with tenure and director of the Policy and Analytics Center at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute in Philadelphia. University officials selected Shea for the position following a national search.