Tamar Bauer, JD, is the Director of the New York Forum for Child Health in the Division of Health and Science Policy. Ms. Bauer is an attorney whose background includes five years of health care law and 10 years of maternal and child health policy, research and advocacy. Her areas of expertise include access to public health insurance for children and families, organization of health services for children with special health care needs, and the impact of government policies on immigrant health. Ms. Bauer completed her undergraduate education at Wesleyan University, and received her law degree with honors from Rutgers University School of Law.
Ms. Bauer joined the Academy as a Health Policy Analyst for the Forum in 1997, and became the Forum’s Director in 2000. Ms. Bauer has been a co-investigator on a federally-funded research grant to assess the perinatal impact of welfare reform on immigrants in New York, California, Texas and Florida. Ms. Bauer has served as the Executive Director of the American Academy of Pediatrics for District II (New York State), and the Director of Policy for the Greater New York March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. She also served as an Adjunct to the National Office of Government Affairs in Washington, D.C., where she focused on the impact of Medicaid managed care on maternity care.
As a lawyer in private practice with Kalkines, Arky, Zall & Bernstein from 1985-1989, Ms. Bauer's work included a wide range of issues. She handled high-impact public interest litigation, successfully defending the constitutionality of the bad debt and charity care pool in NYPHRM at the trial court level. Ms. Bauer also represented small providers on Medicaid rate appeals, and provided general counsel representation to hospitals on planning issues.
Contact information: (212) 822-7275; tbauer@nyam.org
