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California Consulting announced that Amandeep Kaur Matharu has joined the firm as a Senior Associate. Amandeep is an attorney with a wide breadth of experience in government, the law, health care, and budget financing. Ms. Matharu was raised in Fresno, California. She attended Clovis High School, where she was a high school debate champion and editor of the school newspaper. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, where she double majored in Political Science and Molecular and Cell Biology. Her passion for public service was sparked at Berkeley, where she volunteered at a student clinic that provided pre-trial services for low-income defendants and served as an intern at the non-profit Physicians for Human Rights where she worked on health care and immigration issues. She was also a student activist in the Bay Area Sikh-American community.
After Berkeley, Ms. Matharu attended Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she received her Master's in Public Policy in 1998 with concentrations in Strategic Management and Health Care Policy. At Harvard, Ms. Matharu was active in student affairs as a member of the Dean's Committee on Diversity. Upon graduation, Ms. Matharu was selected as a Presidential Management Intern and accepted a position at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, D.C. as a Program Examiner.
At OMB, Ms. Matharu developed federal health policy and budget proposals for a number of agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Related to those agencies, she assisted with the development of the President's annual budget proposal, advised on appropriations negotiations with Congress, coordinated Administration policy within the Executive Branch, prepared briefing materials for policy officials, reviewed legislation and Congressional testimony, and served as a representative in Executive Branch interagency working groups, among other duties.
Having acquired broad training on the federal budget process and federal policymaking at OMB, Ms. Matharu moved to HHS in order to gain an understanding of these issues from a federal agency perspective. At HHS, she served as a Health Policy Advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General, where she developed and analyzed federal health policies and designed and coordinated studies and special projects on a wide range of issues, including racial and ethnic health disparities, health promotion and disease prevention, and performance measurement and reporting for the program offices of HHS's Office of Public Health and Science. She was one of the lead staff members who helped to organize the White House Conference on Health Disparities led by HHS and the American Public Health Association. She also served as the project officer for a $1.1 million microgrant program of the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, designed to stimulate community-based initiatives in health promotion and disease prevention activities. For this program, she wrote the Request for Proposals, managed the grant review and selection process, and oversaw implementation of project activities.
Ms. Matharu left HHS to join The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation at the request of outgoing Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher, who joined the Foundation as a Senior Visiting Fellow after his term as Surgeon General expired. As the Senior Advisor for Policy and Research to the Senior Visiting Fellow, Ms. Matharu helped to draft Dr. Satcher's book proposal on his time as the nation's top doctor, wrote speeches and academic papers for publication, and otherwise directed Dr. Satcher's projects and research agenda.
Following her years as a public servant, Ms. Matharu returned to school and obtained her law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2005. After law school, she worked as a commercial litigation associate with Quinn Emanuel LLP, working on a variety of legal matters ranging from intellectual property to contract disputes. She most recently served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Oliver W. Wanger of the Eastern District of California in Fresno. Amandeep's parents are both practicing physicians in Fresno.
Ms. Matharu will assist owner Steve Samuelian with management of California Consulting's grant-writing program, as well as assisting with client relations, governmental affairs, office operations and other duties. In announcing her appointment, Mr. Samuelian said, "We are pleased to have someone of Amandeep's caliber join our team. As the firm grows, it is important to add experienced and talented team members and Amandeep is a great fit for California Consulting."
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