Draft:Dawn Alley

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Dawn Alley
Education	University of Southern California (BA) University of Southern California (PhD)
Employer	Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center
Title	Chief Strategy Officer
Term	2020-2021
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse	Nicholas Burger
Children	2

Dawn E. Alley, Ph.D., is a health policymaker, population health researcher, and former Chief Strategy Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center. She is currently Head of Scale at IMPaCT Care.

Education

Alley has a PhD and BA in Gerontology from the University of Southern California. She completed post-doctoral training in Population Health at the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar.

Early Years

Alley grew up as a Medicaid recipient in Indiana. She was inspired to pursue gerontology by spending time with her grandmother, who was the manager of the Tippecanoe County Home, which served older adults with long-term care needs.

Career

Prior to government service, Alley was an Assistant Professor in the Gerontology Division of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine where she conducted research on the correlations between mortgage delinquency and health outcomes in older Americans and obesity and Medicare costs.

Office of the Surgeon General

Alley began her public service career in 2011 as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow in the Office of the Surgeon General. She went on to serve as Senior Advisor to the Surgeon General where she oversaw implementation of the National Prevention Strategy and published on leveraging multiple sectors to improve population health as part of the strategy.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Alley held multiple senior roles at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. As Director of the Prevention and Population Health Group and later Acting Director of the State Innovations Group, where she oversaw a team of 80 that launched and implemented more than $1 billion of programs including the Accountable Health Communities Model, Million Hearts Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Model, Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program, Integrated Care for Kids Model, Maternal Opioid Misuse Model, Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport Model, and Maryland Total Cost of Care Model. She returned to CMMI from 2020 to 2021 as Chief Strategy Officer. Her work on the Center's quality strategy led to the creation of the Center's first Chief Quality Officer.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

From 2019 to 2020, Alley served as Deputy Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Value-based Transformation.

Private Sector

Alley has held multiple roles outside of government including Managing Director, Healthcare Innovation for JP Morgan Chase's Morgan Health and President of Decision Support at CareBridge, which was the fastest growing privately held company in America in 2023. She is currently Head of Scale at IMPaCT Care, a public benefit corporation supporting access to evidence-based community health worker programs.

Alley is affiliate faculty at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She continues to advocate for improved policies for dually eligible individuals and expansion of payment for evidence-based preventive services in Medicare. She has over 50 publications in journals, including JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Selected Publications

• Sanghavi D, Alley D.  Transforming population health – ARPA-H's new program targeting broken incentives.  NEJM.  2024; 390:295-298.
• Billioux A, Conway PH, Alley DE.  Addressing population health: Integrators in the Accountable Health Communities model.  JAMA.  2017;318:1865-1866.
• Alley D.  "I worked for CMS.  Even I struggle to help family navigate dual eligibility."  STAT, 11/16/23.
• Alley D, Resnick M, Bobroske K, Mendelson D.  The role of employers in addressing quality variation in employer-sponsored health insurance.  NEJM Catalyst.  8/29/23.