David Machledt is a Senior Policy Analyst in the National Health Law Program’s Washington, D.C. office. His work at the National Health Law Program centers on managed care quality and accountability as well as coverage and care for older adults and people with disabilities, including home and community-based services. He is also a co-chair for the health task force of the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities (CCD), a large coalition of national disability organizations. David also writes, researches, and advocates on Medicaid demonstrations and waivers, and health care affordability.

David has a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a focus on immigration and public health policy. David’s dissertation work, an ethnography of cross-border tuberculosis control programs, investigated the design of a bi-national public health policy and access to care issues for low-income migrant populations at the U.S./Mexico border.