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Laura Housman
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Practice Director
Laura T. Housman, MPH, MBA, DrPH candidate (ABD) is Practice Director of the Evidence and Strategy practice within Avalere Health, bringing broad and extensive expertise in strategy, evidence generation, reimbursement and pricing, patient communications, population health and personalized medicine to drive access to innovation across healthcare.
In 2015 Laura founded and led Access Solutions Consulting (ASC), a healthcare advisory firm serving an extensive network of pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic companies. Laura has launched and/or commercialized over 30 diagnostic offerings, successfully obtaining coverage and premium pricing from Medicare Administrative Carriers, including the MolDx program; national, regional and Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial plans nationwide; as well as in global markets.
Before joining Avalere, Laura served as Chief Commercial and Operations Officer of Olaris, a diagnostic company using metabolomics and machine learning to develop in vitro diagnostics. Prior to joining Olaris, Laura was Vice President/Head of Access, Outcomes and Population Health with Exact Sciences where she developed a function and led a multidisciplinary team focused on novel approaches for developing real-world evidence, population health initiatives and driving market access for Cologuard® and Exact’s broad range of diagnostic assays, including OncotypeDx™. Previously, Laura led the Market Access, Pricing and HE&OR group within Novartis' Pharmaceutical Corporation's global Pharma/Molecular Diagnostics unit; was Executive Director of Marketing for Charles River Laboratories, focused on the commercialization of its worldwide Preclinical, First in Human and Biopharmaceutical Services; and, led marketing and commercialization strategies in support of managed care outreach as Director of Marketing for Genzyme Genetics, a business unit of Genzyme Corporation. In addition to her work within industry, Ms. Housman spent a decade leading health services evaluation, contracting, and provider profiling initiatives as a Director within not-for-profit healthcare insurance plan BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts.
Laura received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the College of Arts and Sciences and a Minor in Business Administration from the School of Management from Boston University. She received her Master of Public Health from the Boston University School of Public Health and her Master of Business Administration with honors from Boston University’s Questrom Graduate School of Management. Laura is currently a Candidate in the Doctorate of Public Health (DrPH) program at Boston University School of Public Health.
In addition, Ms. Housman is an active member of a number of advisor and volunteer boards, including as a Merit Reviewer for the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Initiative (PCORI). Laura continues to share her thought leadership and expertise.