Deputy Director, Altarum Center for Sustainable Health Spending
B.A., mathematics, University of Michigan
Ani Turner has more than 20 years of experience in quantitative analysis and modeling to support decisionmaking in health care policy and operations. She has extensive experience developing models to forecast supply and demand of health professions at the federal and state levels, including studies of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and physical therapists. Ms. Turner is currently leading two Altarum projects focusing on the physician workforce in the U.S., with special emphasis on primary care.
Prior to joining Altarum and its predecessor company Vector Research, Inc. Ms. Turner studied issues related to energy use and incentives for a large public utility. She developed models of daily household electricity demand based on appliance ownership and demographic characteristics. She surveyed residential energy audit participants to determine potential incentives for increasing installation of recommended conservation measures and conducted a study evaluating perceptions of community needs and effectiveness of existing community services for the United Way.
For a decade, Ms. Turner led work for the Department of Defense conducting economic analyses of hospital requirements and life-cycle costs in support of over a dozen multi-million dollar military medical construction decisions. More recently, Ms. Turner co-authored an initial assessment of the DoD TRICARE program’s civilian network provider capacity.
Ms. Turner has played an active role in internal Altarum Institute research and planning activities. She led two internal task forces defining Altarum’s vision for a transformed U.S. health system and potential focus areas for research. She also led an internal research and development project to link national health expenditures as measured within the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA) with employment by detailed occupation and expenditures for employee compensation and other inputs. Ms. Turner also contributed to an internal examination of U.S. spending on wellness and prevention, developing a framework for expansion of the work outside expenditures captured in the NHEA.
Ms. Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan, and is currently enrolled in the Master of Applied Economics program at Michigan.
Areas of Expertise
Economic Analysis and Forecasting
Health Policy Analysis
Military and Veterans Health