Siyabonga Ndwandwe is a research assistant in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute. He works on the Health Policy Simulation Model (HIPSM) to predict and analyze the effects of the Affordable Care Act across states.

Ndwandwe received his BA in economics with minors statistics and geography from Macalester College and was health services researcher at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics as a Summer Undergraduate Minority Research scholar.