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Margaret Carey, M.P.H.
Senior Associate

Margaret Carey joined the Center for Health Law and Economics at UMass Medical School in 2008, concentrating in development, planning, and management of the Center’s business activities and major projects. Ms. Carey brings a variety of diverse skills to the position, including over 16 years in the private sector and four years in the public sector. At Johnson & Johnson, Ms. Carey worked in product development and was responsible for training surgeons and sales personnel. Later she transferred her extensive private sector experience in clinical application, marketing, and training to her work in public programs and policy. At Cornell University, she served as Environmental Health Educator and worked with the Cornell Program for Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors, a nationally prestigious group educating a variety of New York stakeholders on environmental risk factors for breast cancer. As a public health consultant prior to working at Cornell University, Ms. Carey managed a randomized controlled trial for the National Institute of Drug Abuse (part of NIH) on the most effective way to train substance abuse counselors. She also managed the evaluation of training efforts for OB/GYNs on the most efficacious way to educate low-income, HIV-positive pregnant women on preventing the transmission of the virus to their unborn children.

Ms. Carey holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Gettysburg College.

margaret.carey@umassmed.edu
617-886-8246