Staff Service Fellow in the Center for Delivery, Organization & Markets (CDOM)
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)

Region
United States

IEDM Area of Expertise
Global Health, Food & Nutrition - Public Health, Policy & Research

Education
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, PhD, 2006
Yale University, School of Public Health, MPH, 2000
University of California, Berkeley, BA, 1996

Experience
Celeste Marie Torio is currently a Staff Service Fellow in the Center for Delivery, Organization & Markets (CDOM) at the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ). She leads the public reporting initiative to improve healthcare quality, lower overall cost of care, and improve decision-making for consumers.

Dr. Torio also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Business & Economics at The Catholic University of America (CUA), where she focuses on the economic and management aspects of global health and nutrition.

Prior to joining AHRQ, she served as a Research and Evaluation Officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Her portfolio (which totaled $54.0 million) focused on identifying promising methodological advances based on emerging evidence, on state-level evaluations of policy research, and on reporting and dissemination of findings. Her work has appeared in ABC News, the Huffington Post, and Scientific American.

She also served as a Congressional Policy Fellow for the Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP).

As a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, her areas of research included the intersection of epidemiology and health policy to address health disparities. She was awarded the National Cancer Institute’s National Research Service Award and a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health student award for Outstanding Doctoral Student in Cancer Prevention. She received a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MPH from the Yale School of Public Health, and a PhD in Health, Behavior and Society from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.