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The Program Experience

Program Direction

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Program Direction

National Program Office
The Boston University Health Policy Institute serves as the National Program Office (NPO), providing direction and technical assistance for the program. The NPO oversees Scholar selection and placement, convenes the National Advisory Committee, monitors and assists program training sites, manages program communications (i.e. Working Paper Series and program websites), organizes and conducts the program's annual meeting and maintains ties with Program alumni through regional meetings and special communications.

Staff members at the National Program Office are:

ALAN B. COHEN, ScD, Program Director
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Executive Director, Health Policy Institute

   

CATHERINE (KATIE) PLAYER, MA, Deputy Director
Senior Fellow, Health Policy Institute

 



JEDEDIAH HORWITT, MPH, Research Analyst
Program Manager , Health Policy Institute

 

 

 

MELISSA E. MANOLIS, BS, Program Manager

Foundation Staff
Responsible staff members at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are:

  • Lori A. Melichar, PhD, Senior Program Officer;
  • David C. Colby, PhD, Vice President for Research and Evaluation;
  • John R. Lumpkin, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Director of the
    Health Care Group;
  • Linda Wright Moore, Senior Communications Officer; and
  • Christine Phares, Grants Administrator.

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