The Fund supports networks of state health policy decision makers to help identify, inspire, and inform policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund supports two state leadership programs for legislative and executive branch state government officials committed to improving population health.
The Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis to advance state health leadership, strong primary care, and sustainable health care costs.
Keep up with news and updates from the Milbank Memorial Fund. And read the latest blogs from our thought leaders, including Fund President Christopher F. Koller.
The Fund publishes The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to health policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is is a foundation that works to improve population health and health equity.
The Milbank Fellows Program (MFP) is a 10-month leadership program for senior executive branch and legislative state leaders who are committed to improving population health in their communities.
Over the course of the Milbank Fellows Program, participants:
Convened by the Milbank Memorial Fund, in partnership with the Colorado Health Institute, and featuring guest faculty with expertise and applied experience in state policymaking, this program supports up to 24 participants as they address challenges and opportunities in today’s complex health policy environment. The Fund covers all costs of sessions and materials, including three in-person meetings.
Applications are now open for the 2025-26 cohort.
“The states are really where health policy action is. There are 50 state labs plus DC plus the territories and they’re innovating in a thousand different ways. To be able to bring them together to enhance their leadership potential really is where we feel like the greatest difference can be made in population health and health equity.”
Program Leader
“For me the chance to learn from what states across the country are doing and the approaches, the strategies, the ways of engaging stakeholders that have been part of that effort has really infused me with a level of creativity and new ways of approaching complex problems.”
Deputy Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services
State Representative, Maryland
Director, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration, Maryland Department of Health
