Brigitte Buquez is a manager for Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory division of Manatt. Based in the Firm’s San Francisco office, Brigitte works on a broad range of substantive issues including payment and delivery system transformation, health system and academic medical center strategy, Medicaid policy, redesign and innovation, Medicare policy and strategy, and digital health strategy.

Before joining Manatt, Brigitte was a senior project manager at a leading academic medical center, where she led various initiatives to increase access to ambulatory care in medicine specialties. She also led several COVID-19 response and recovery efforts, as well as a hospitalwide data initiative to identify disparities in access to care for underserved patient populations.

While in graduate school, Brigitte was a project manager at the Yale Equity Research and Innovation Center, analyzing strategies to incorporate diabetes prevention into care delivery in New York, Barbados, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Puerto Rico. Brigitte also has experience as a research assistant supporting several projects focused on health equity.