laura lawlor
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Laura Lawlor is the Owner and President of Lawlor Consulting. With over two decades of senior-level public policy experience, she has served in various government roles at both the state and federal level. Her policy expertise is focused on health care, including Medicare and Medicaid, reimbursement and payment reform, health information technology, biotech and pharmaceutical, public health and other issues. Lawlor currently advises a variety of public and private sector clients.
Lawlor’s past federal experience includes serving as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Cabinet Affairs in the White House. At the state level, she served as Health Policy Advisor and Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs to the Governor and as Director of the Texas House of Representatives Public Health Committee.
At the federal level, Lawlor directly advised the HHS Cabinet Secretary and led and managed policy initiatives on a diverse portfolio of critical issues including public health, health services and reform. While serving at the White House, she handled policy and communications with the Cabinet Secretaries and senior staff at agencies including HHS.
While serving the Governor of Texas, Lawlor managed the health policy agenda and advised the Governor on those issues and handled development and passage of the Governor’s legislative agenda. During her years as Director of the Public Health Committee, she worked closely with legislative and executive branch leadership to develop, pass and implement health related legislation.
Lawlor combined experiences give her a deep understanding of the dynamics between state and federal government and how to work with both legislative and executive branch leadership. She has a proven ability to foster dialogue at all levels of an organization to effect change. Her talents in policy development, strategy and communications provide her with the ability to build broad support for policies and ideas and deliver results.
laura@lawlorconsulting.net
512-263-9400
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