Clea Vannet

Clea Vannet is a senior researcher in the Health division at AIR, specializing in qualitative research and evaluation to advance health equity and improve care systems. With over nine years of experience, Clea brings expertise in qualitative methods, program evaluation, and project management. She has led numerous initiatives addressing behavioral health and chronic disease, applying a systems-thinking approach in partnership with communities most impacted.

Vannet is currently the deputy director of the qualitative and survey evaluation of Kaiser Permanente’s Population Health Management Initiative in California, managing the implementation and execution of the data collection strategy for the initiative, which is seeking to implement population health management strategies that can improve clinical health outcomes in California FQHCs. She also helps manage the Kidney Care Choices payment model implementation contract from the CMS Innovation Center, overseeing Quality domain tasks. She has also helped lead several evaluations and other projects including an evaluation funded by the California Health Care Foundation of an initiative to support behavioral health integration into primary care practices, monitoring the implementation of a behavioral health linkage program in school districts in San Mateo County, California, and an evaluation of an anti-oppression and leadership development program in Colorado, funded by The Colorado Trust.