The Fund supports several networks of state health policymakers to help identify, inspire, and inform policy leaders.
The Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis on topics important to state health policymakers, particularly on issues related to state leadership, primary care, aging, and 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 an endowed operating foundation that aims to improve population health by connecting leaders and decision makers with the best available evidence and experience. It does this work by:
The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed operating foundation that publishes The Milbank Quarterly, commissions projects, and convenes state health policy decision makers on issues they identify as important to population health.
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Kathleen S. Andersen is vice president and chief operating officer of the Fund. Before joining the Fund in 1990 as a program officer, Ms. Andersen was associate director of the Center for Assessing Health Services at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a member of the staff of the vice president for health sciences. Prior to that she served in state government in Louisiana and worked in planning, research, and evaluation for the Board of Regents and as a caseworker for the Division of Family Services. She earned a BA degree in philosophy from Louisiana State University and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
