Dawn Alley

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. She has an h-index of 38.
==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 link between poverty and c-reactive protein, 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 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 roles at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, including Director of the Prevention and Public Health Group, Acting Director of the State Innovations Group, and Chief Strategy Officer. Alley directed the development, launch, and implementation of national value-based payment and delivery system reform programs including Accountable Health Communities Model, Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program, Integrated Care for Kids Model;Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport Model; and Maryland Total Cost of Care Model. Through her work on the Accountable Health Communities model, Alley contributed to the development of one of the most widely used screening tools for health-related social needs, which has now been incorporated into national Medicare payment policy. 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 where she led department-wide work to advance social determinants of health, rural health, and maternal health.
===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 related to health equity, 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.
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