IOA Staff

Bill Lamb, CMSW, MPA

Public Service Lead

Bill joined the Institute on Aging in July of 2000 after a 30-year career working in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. He retired as the Chief of Planning for the NC Division of Aging. Prior to that he held a variety of planning and administrative positions in the Division of Social Services and the Division of Aging.

Highlights of Bill's work with the Department of Health and Human Services include: being one of the first state consultants to work with the Medicaid Community Alternatives Program for Disabled Adults; initiating the Medicaid Enhanced Care Program in Adult Care Homes and local Social Services Departments; producing three legislatively mandated State Aging Services Plans; producing North Carolina Comes of Age, a demographic profile of older North Carolinians; and providing staff support to the Home and Community Care Advisory Committee, the Long-Term Care Roundtable, and most recently the Long Term Care Advisory Committee of the NC Institute of Medicine. At the Institute on Aging, Bill has had the lead role in planning the annual North Carolina Conference on Aging.

Bill received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest University in 1970; a Master of Social Work degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974; and a Master of Public Administration degree from North Carolina State University in 1981. He has been a past president of the North Carolina Association of Social Workers and of the UNC School of Social Work Alumni Association. He currently serves on the boards of Friends of Residents in Long Term Care, Resources for Seniors in Wake County, and the North Carolina Association on Aging.Email: bill_lamb@unc.edu