Center for Children and Families

Cindy Mann

Executive Director

Cindy Mann, executive director of the Center for Children and Families (CCF), has extensive experience in the design, implementation, and analysis of federal and state policies affecting children and families. She is also a research professor at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, and an associate commissioner with the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

Ms. Mann's experience includes administering the SCHIP program and aspects of Medicaid at the federal level, directing health policy for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and working on the design and implementation of health programs at the state level. From 1998 through 2000, she was the director of the Family and Children's Health Program Group at the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, now the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) where she was responsible for overseeing the children and families side of the Medicaid program and SCHIP. She also has worked with state policymakers and administrators on designing and implementing their health care programs for children and families, including work for the state of Maine's Dirigo initiative. She has written extensively on these topics and has presented testimony to Congress and to state legislatures on Medicaid and SCHIP on several occasions. Ms. Mann holds a law degree from New York University School of Law and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.