Christian Laurence-Diaz

Strategic Planning and Compliance Consultant

Christian Laurence-Diaz is a health policy leader and advisor with nearly two decades of experience across federal, state, and local government settings, including the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Congressional Budget Office, NYC Mayor’s Office, and NYC Emergency Management. He is a Bloomberg Fellow and DrPH candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and currently serves as assistant program chief at CalPERS.

Photo collage showing the US Capitol building next to a close crop of a doctor holding the hands of an older patient.
Hospitals & Facilities

Op-ed: Federal health equity cuts shift the burden downstream—to hospitals

Congress is still funding some health equity initiatives, but the government has put states and hospitals in a bind.

Christian Laurence-Diaz
Collage of the Capitol building and hands wearing medical gloves holding pills and a vaccine bottle, arranged within abstract shapes.
Hospitals & Facilities

Op-ed: Why are hospitals paying for an overdose response system that’s designed to stall?

The federal government has already demonstrated how standardization and financing can prevent harm and avoid downstream costs.

Christian Laurence-Diaz