U.S. Public Health

U.S. Public Health Consulting at Booz Allen

Booz Allen Hamilton works across nearly all U.S. government agencies with health-related missions and with many state and regional public health entities. We also work with several non-governmental organizations (NGO), standards development organizations (SDO), and other public and private stakeholders across the public health landscape to help connect the community and improve our nation’s health.

With decades of experience working with the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, Booz Allen has been ranked among the top two healthcare consultants to the U.S. federal government. We are thought leaders in health data analytics, advancing medical science through translational research and collaborative science, and developing interoperable systems for the coordination of benefits to the nation’s “wounded warriors.” We’ve developed pioneering systems for adverse events surveillance of both post-market pharmaceuticals and the nation’s food supply, and assisted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in creating a supply-chain strategy and capability for it’s National Children’s Vaccine Program. Our experts are publishing and speaking on the leading edge of healthcare quality, payment reform, and realization of the potential of personal health records. We are also at the forefront of public-private collaboration, having facilitated the creation of public health Megacommunities for addressing Alzheimer’s Disease and diabetes.

Our Work

Booz Allen’s work across the spectrum of U.S. public health has been recognized by numerous awards. Whether developing strategic simulations to prepare leaders for natural disasters, epidemics, and bioterrorism; building the first Internet-based food safety system; improving efficiencies to bring safe and effective drugs to market; or conceiving and building new supply chain strategies to get critical vaccines to people, Booz Allen delivers results that endure.

• CDC National Children’s Vaccine Program—Booz Allen conceived and built a new supply chain strategy and capability for the CDC’s National Children’s Vaccine Program.
• Privacy and Security—The U.S. Department of Defense’s Military Health System had to comply with new federal privacy regulations and called on Booz Allen to devise systems and provide training.
• Accelerating Drug Discovery—Booz Allen partnered with the National Cancer Institute and cancer researchers across the United States to help develop the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) and accelerate discovery of cancer treatments.
• Designing and Implementing a New Medicare Program—CMS asked Booz Allen to help implement a program that provided new drug benefits to 40 million Americans.
• Public-Private Perspectives—We supported the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in developing guidelines for optimized drug approval processes through the Prescription Drug User Free Act (PDUFA).

Our Capabilities

With expertise in public policy, clinical research, bioinformatics, interoperability, privacy and security, quality, clinical care delivery, grants management, healthcare payment, and technology, Booz Allen offers a range of services to U.S. public health agencies:

• Assurance and Resilience
• Data Analytics
• Economics and Business Analysis
• Grant Management
• Health Information Technology and Interoperability
• Information Technology
• Modeling and Simulation
• Organization and Strategy
• Operations and Logistics
• Supply Chain and Logisitics
• Systems Engineering and Integration

Career Opportunities

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Additional Information

• Produce Safety Summit: Implications of Mandatory Safety Standards—This report provides an overview of the Produce Safety Summit on March 5, 2009, as well as insights emerging from the Summit about the challenges of standards implementation, compliance, and enforcement, which are applicable to many commodities.
• Toward Health Information Liquidity: Realization of Better, More Efficient Care From the Free Flow of Health Information—How health information and communications technology (health IT) can accelerate progress towards health reform and a genuinely patient-centered health care system.
• Hospital Value-Based Purchasing—Booz Allen, along with a team of other researchers and consultants, supports the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the design of a hospital value-based purchasing program.
• Envisioning the Roadmap for National Hospital Quality Reporting—Booz Allen contributed to a roundtable sponsored by the Joint Commission Public Policy Initiative to develop a national strategy to evaluate health provider performance.
• Health Care’s Retail Solution—Authored by health experts at Booz Allen and Booz & Co., this book sets out an overarching vision and analyzes fundamental changes that need to be made to realize a consumer-focused future in health care.
• Alzheimer’s Disease Megacommunity–the Path Ahead—Booz Allen Hamilton and the Center for Health engaged nearly 80 leaders from the public, private, and civil sectors in a simulation to explore a new paradigm for the prevention, detection, treatment, and care of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and their families.
• Booz Allen Becomes Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7) Benefactor—Booz Allen supports the development of critical healthcare industry standards and products.
• Reggie Van Lee Talks About the Value of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in Health—Watch an interview with Booz Allen Senior Vice President Reggie Van Lee at the 2008 World Economic Forum. 
• CDC National Children’s Vaccine Program—Booz Allen conceived and built a new supply chain strategy and capability for the CDC’s National Children’s Vaccine Program.
• Designing and Implementing a Medicare Program—CMS asked Booz Allen to help provide first-time drug benefits to 40 million Americans.
• Influenza Pandemic Simulation Reveals Challenges in Delivering Essential Services During Widespread Outbreak—At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Booz Allen explored the implications of an influenza pandemic through simulation.
• Influenza Pandemic Simulation—Implications for the United States—An influenza pandemic will be unlike any crisis today’s government or business organizations have ever experienced. The Center for Health Transformation and Booz Allen engaged nearly 100 leaders from the public and private sectors to work through a simulated influenza pandemic.