Maureen McDonnell

Senior Director for Health & Justice Initiatives - TASC's Center for Health & Justice

Maureen McDonnell, Senior Director for Health & Justice, leads systems change processes at the intersection of public health, criminal justice, treatment, and human service systems and builds partnerships and coalitions that generate substantial change. Her experience includes building jail and prison reentry services as well as drug courts, mental health courts and diversion/deflection programs. Ms. McDonnell led TASC’s work to design universal Medicaid enrollment during jail intake (2013) and health care bridges from jails in Cook County, as well as CHJ’s consulting work with counties nationwide. Today, Ms. McDonnell leads CHJ’s work with counties in California and other states on implementing the new Medicaid Reentry Demonstration Program (1115 Waiver) and the CAA Youth Provisions at the county level. She also gained significant expertise in medication-assisted treatment, crisis services, hospital-based overdose interventions, and Medicaid financing while serving as Executive Director of a community substance use treatment agency. Ms. McDonnell earned her BA in Economics from Northwestern University and her Masters Degree in Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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