Natassia M. Rozario

Senior Manager

Manatt Health

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nrozario@manatt.com
Phone: 212.790.4590

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Natassia Rozario is a senior manager with Manatt Health, an interdisciplinary policy and business advisory division of Manatt. She provides policy analysis, strategic advice and technical support to a wide range of clients. She has over 15 years of experience working in the United States and abroad on complex issues involving health equity, human rights, public health and social justice.

Before joining Manatt, Natassia was the director of opioid response and policy for the New Jersey Department of Health, providing oversight and management of the department’s overdose surveillance, harm reduction and prevention activities in coordination with department’s leadership, as well as serving as a strategic advisor to the commissioner of health on the overdose epidemic and as the principal investigator on the Centers for Disease Control Overdose Data to Action Grant in New Jersey. During her tenure, she also helped lead and manage numerous COVID-19 mitigation efforts among some of the most vulnerable, including persons experiencing homelessness, victims of domestic violence and those in custody at county jail facilities. Prior to joining the department, she was named to serve on New Jersey Governor Murphy’s Healthcare Transition Team.

At the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers, she served in numerous roles, including as senior director of external affairs. During her time at the Camden Coalition, she helped lead a statewide Medicaid policy coalition; design and successfully lobby for housing-first programs, care coordination programs, and improved transportation for persons with medical and social complexity in New Jersey; pass legislation on integrated data in New jersey; and obtain grant funding to establish a National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs.

Natassia was also a Fulbright Fellow in India, a William J. Clinton Service Fellow in India and a research associate at the Center for Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University. Taken together, these experiences have afforded her a nuanced perspective of the health care system at local, state, national and global levels.

Throughout her career, she has published and has been a speaker on a wide range of topics related to health equity and health disparities.

Speaking Engagements

Presenter, “The Role of Stigma and Implicit Bias in the Opioid Epidemic, Trauma, Implicit Bias, Health Series,” May 5, 2021.

Moderator, “Panel Discussion on Social Determinants of Health, Culture of Health,” Virtual Town Hall in New Jersey, YMCA State Alliance, December 11, 2020.

Moderator, “A Tale of Two Epidemics, COVID-19 and Addictions,” New Jersey Psychiatric Association, November 14, 2020.

Presenter, “The Opioid Epidemic: Harm Reduction Opportunities,” New Jersey Viral Hepatitis Elimination Summit, RWJ Barnabus Health, October 28, 2019.

Presenter, “HIT Strategies: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic,” 7th Annual Medicaid Conference, New Jersey Institute of Technology, October 24, 2019.

Presenter, “The Impact of Opioids on Child Health and Wellbeing,” Child-Health and Wellbeing Research Group, Rutgers University, September 18, 2019.

Moderator, “Coming Together to Support—Not Stigmatize—New Jerseyans Who Use Drugs, Fighting Stigma to End the Overdose Epidemic: A Harm Reduction Workshop,” Trenton War Memorial, August 21, 2019.

Presenter, “Turning Opioid-related Data into Public Health Action,” New Jersey, June 26-27, 2019.

Moderator, “Complex Care Policy Webinar Series for The National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs,” bimonthly six-webinar series, 2018.

Panelist, “Take Back Healthcare,” Tom Tom Founders Festival, April 13, 2018

Panelist, “Collective Action in Public Health,” Tom Tom Founders Festival, April 13, 2018.

Presenter, “Innovation Spotlight: Lessons from the Field,” Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) Population Health Summit, April 26, 2018.

Presenter, “Identifying and Managing the Social Determinants of Health,” New Jersey Innovation Institute Innovation Showcase, March 14, 2018.

Co-presenter, “Healthcare Hotspotting: Delivering Care to the Most Complex Patients,” Helmsley Charitable Trust, June 6, 2017.

Honors & Awards

Recipient of the Public Interest Scholarship Program at Washington College of Law, American University

Admitted to practice in the state of New York

Certified in Basic Mediation Training, New York Center for Interpersonal Development, 2018

Co-author, “Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform: Overview and Implementation Update,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, August 2024.

Co-author, “Impact of the Pandemic and the End of the Public Health Emergency on Opioid Use Disorder Treatment,” with support from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts, August 1, 2023.

Co-author, “Working with Community Care Hubs to Address Social Drivers of Health: A Playbook for State Medicaid Agencies,” Partnership to Align Social Care and The SCAN Foundation, November 2022.

Co-author, “Creating a Robust, Diverse, and Resilient Behavioral Health Workforce in Massachusetts,” Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, September 2022.

Co-author, “New Jersey’s Bottom-Up Data Partnership for Population Health,” Milbank Memorial Fund, May 25, 2022.

Interviewed, “Navigating the Opioid Epidemic amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives on Cross-Agency State Partnerships from New Jersey,” Center for Health Care Strategies blog, Center for Health Care Strategies, November 2020.

Co-author, “Opinion, Healthcare Recommendations for Phil Murphy,” Bergen Record, November 9, 2018.

Co-author, “Legal Issues for IDS Use: Finding a Way Forward,” Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, Expert Panel Report, March 2017.

Co-author, “Opinion, Half a century after its inception, what can Medicaid teach us?,” NJ Spotlight/Philadelphia Inquirer, July 30, 2017.

Co-author, “Between Cairo and Haryana: How Far have Reproductive Rights Come After Twenty Years of the ICPD?” 35 Whittier L. Rev. 373, 2013-2014.

Author, “Tobacco Control for Women: A Human Rights Framework,” 6(2) Health Law & Policy Brief 105, 105-120, Fall 2012.

Co-author, “State Obligation to Guarantee the Right to Health and the Derivative Right to Medicine,” 6(2) Health Law & Policy Brief 31, 31-64, Fall 2012.

Co-author, “The Impact of Information Technology on Organ Donation,” 100, 100-15 in Medical Professionalism in the New Information Age (David Blumenthal & David Rothman eds., Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Co-author, “Show Me the Money: Lessons in Transparency from State Pharmaceutical Marketing Disclosure Laws,” 45(1) Health Service Research J 98, 98-114, 2009.

Co-author, “What Do We Owe Each Other?: Rights and Obligations in Contemporary American Society,” 79, 79-90, David Rothman and Howard Rosenthal eds., Transactions, 2008.

Co-author, “What Body Parts do We Owe Each Other?” 44 (5) SOCIETY, 24, 24-29, 2007.

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