David Machledt is the Director of the Delivery Systems Practice Area at the National Health Law Program’s Washington, D.C. office. His work centers primarily on holding managed care organizations accountable for providing timely access to high quality care for low-income and underserved communities. He has previously focused on coverage and care for older adults and people with disabilities, including home and community-based services, Medicaid demonstrations and waivers, and health care affordability.
David has a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz with a focus on immigration and public health policy. David’s dissertation work, an ethnography of cross-border tuberculosis control programs, investigated the design of a bi-national public health policy and access to care issues for low-income migrant populations at the U.S./Mexico border.
After receiving his doctorate, David spent a year living in eastern Ethiopia.
He is proficient in Spanish and Dutch and also can speak some Amharic. He is a bicycle aficionado who has twice ridden across the U.S. — once west to east and once north to south.
