Cindy Mann, J.D., is a research professor at Georgetown University, Health Policy Institute and the executive director of the Center for Children and Families at the Institute. Her work is focused on health coverage, financing, and access issues affecting low-income populations. She has written extensively on these issues and the Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP), in particular, and has worked closely with state and federal policymakers and program administrators on the design and implementation of Medicaid and SCHIP. From 1999–2001, Ms. Mann was the director of the Family and Children's Health Program Group at the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), now the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. In that capacity she directed, at the federal level, the implementation and oversight of the Medicaid program with respect to families, children, and pregnant women and oversaw the implementation of SCHIP. Prior to her work at HCFA, Ms. Mann led the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' federal and state health policy work. She also has extensive state-level experience, having worked on health care, welfare, and public finance issues in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New York. She holds a law degree from New York University School of Law.