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ABOUT
Alan Weil is senior vice president, public policy and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute (PPI), where he oversees public policy research across PPI’s issue areas of financial security, health security, and family, home and community. The Public Policy Institute is AARP’s in-house think tank and serves as a trusted resource that advances innovative, evidence-based, and actionable solutions that empower people to choose how they live as they age.
Before joining AARP, Weil served ten years as editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, the nation’s premier peer-reviewed journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Before leading Health Affairs, Weil was executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research and policy organization. Previously, Weil directed the Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism project, one of the largest privately funded social policy research projects ever undertaken in the United States. He also served as executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, the state’s Medicaid agency, and was assistant general counsel in the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security. Weil has also served as director of the Aspen Institute’s Health Strategy Group since its inception in 2015 and continues in that role along with his position at AARP.
Weil is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is a frequent speaker on national and state health policy issues, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, and has co-edited two books. He has testified before Congress multiple times and is called upon by major media outlets for his knowledge and analysis.
Weil’s former affiliations include serving as a member of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC), a trustee of iF, a Foundation for Radical Possibility (formerly the Consumer Health Foundation), a trustee of the National Public Health and Hospitals Institute (now the Essential Hospitals Institute), a member of the Institute of Medicine Board on Health Care Services, a member of the Commonwealth Commission on a High Performance Health System, and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
Weil holds a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
CONTACT
Email: aweil@aarp.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-weil-7473b911/
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