Barbara L. Cammarata

Director and Secretary, CAPRI USA

Barbara L. Cammarata is a U.S.-based attorney and health policy expert with a keen interest in policy research. She has spent her career advising large U.S. and global for-profit and non-profit companies in the health care, capital markets/private equity, insurance, and high-tech space on corporate, health care, and data privacy matters and looks forward to her work with CAPRI USA.

She spent over 20 years as an attorney at various large U.S.-based international law firms, including Sidley Austin, Jones Day, and Latham & Watkins. She currently serves as Knowledge Management Counsel for Latham & Watkin’s global Healthcare and Life Sciences practice. She also spent eight years as Senior Director, Legal/Subject Matter Expert in Healthcare and Data Privacy Law for Roche Diagnostics Solutions, the global medical diagnostics manufacturer and research and development arm of F. Hoffman-LaRoche. Living and working near Washington, DC, she has focused on the intersection of law and policy and has experience interacting with U.S. government legislative and regulatory bodies and related stakeholders developing workable solutions to legal, business, and social problems.

She currently serves on the Boards of The Harvard Club of Washington, DC, and The Emma Jordon Kidz Fighting Cancer Foundation (a pediatric cancer charity supporting U.S. military families). Early in her career she spent three years as a Legislative Counsel for Workplace Flexibility 2010, a grant funded project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation housed at Georgetown University Law Center, which sought to enhance understanding of the challenges facing working families and to identify ways to restructure the workplace to meet the needs of workers and employers.

She received her undergraduate degree in History and Science from Harvard University and a joint degree in Law and Public Health from Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins University. She resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and has three adult children.