Tamara Funk, MPH

Principal Program Advisor
"How we convey information is as important as the information itself."

Tami Funk is a public health professional with leadership experience in public health programming and healthcare quality measurement. She has managed various government-funded programs supporting disease prevention and healthcare delivery improvements, overseen consensus-based endorsement for quality measures and their inclusion in payment programs, and conducted research on pharmaceutical clinical trial transparency, maternal morbidity and mortality quality measurement, and targeted food marketing.

At Lantana, Tami supports communications, policy, and operations for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) and advises on messaging strategies and communication planning, data governance, quality measurement, and managing relationships with state and local health departments as well as other governmental and non-governmental partners.

Tami earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications and French from Wheaton College and a master’s in public health (MPH) from New York University School of Global Public Health.