The Fund supports networks of state health policy decision makers to help identify, inspire, and inform policy leaders.
A bipartisan group of state health policymakers from both the executive and legislative branches who are focused on improving population health.
Networks of state officials, advocates, and others aiming to invest in and transform primary care.
A program dedicated to advancing state-based efforts to make health care more affordable for residents, employers, and states.
The Milbank Memorial Fund supports two state leadership programs for legislative and executive branch state government officials committed to improving population health.
A leadership development program for early and mid-career state government officials who are committed to improving the health of all people in their communities.
A leadership program for senior state government officials who are committed to improving population health.
The Fund focuses on creating an affordable health care system built on strong primary care and partnerships that improve health outcomes for all.
Improving state leaders’ ability to enact and implement evidence-based health policies.
Advancing policies that create a more prevention- and primary care-oriented health system.
Improving population health through policies that contain health care cost growth.
Our state health policy resources offer relevant data analysis and best practices.
The Fund publishes reports, issues briefs, and case studies on state health policy issues.
Short takes on health policy issues from Milbank staff and guest authors.
Insights from Milbank President Debra Lubar on state health policymaking.
Reported articles and Q&As on timely health policy issues, as well as foundation updates.
Milbank Memorial Fund and Milbank Quarterly webinars featuring state health policymakers and researchers.
Updates and expert contact information for reporters.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is a private foundation that works to improve population health and health equity.
Michael Fine, MD, is an author, community organizer, and family physician and public health provocateur. He serves as chief health strategist for the City of Central Falls, Rhode Island. Dr. Fine served in the cabinet of Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee as director of the department of health from 2011–2015, overseeing a broad range of public health programs, services and public health professionals and managing a budget of $110 million a year.
Dr. Fine’s career has been devoted to health care reform and the care of underserved populations. Before his confirmation as director of health, Dr. Fine was the medical program director at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. He was also a founder and managing director of HealthAccessRI, the nation’s first statewide direct primary care organization, which made prepaid primary care available to people without employer-provided health insurance.
Dr. Fine practiced for 16 years in urban Pawtucket, Rhode Island and rural Scituate, Rhode Island. He was the physician operating officer of Hillside Avenue Family and Community Medicine, the largest family practice in Rhode Island, and physician-in-chief of the Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals’ Departments of Family and Community Medicine. He was cochair of the Allied Advocacy Group for Integrated Primary Care. He convened and facilitated the Primary Care Leadership Council, a statewide organization that represented 75 percent of Rhode Island’s primary care physicians and practices.
He currently serves on the boards of the Lown Institute, Crossroads of RI, RICARES and the Scituate Health Alliance, which he founded.
Dr. Fine is the author of Health Care Revolt, the novel Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories. He is the coauthor, with James W. Peters, of The Nature of Health, a study of health care services, human rights, society, technology, and industry, and The Zero Calorie Diet, a look at the culture of excess through the lens of fasting.
February 2021