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Alina Salganicoff

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Alina Salganicoff

Vice President; Director, Women's Health Policy and KaiserEDU.org
Kaiser Family Foundation
Expertise: 
women's health, HPV vaccine, medicaid, access to care

Biography

Alina Salganicoff, Ph.D., is Vice President and Director of Women's Health Policy and KaiserEDU.org for the Kaiser Family Foundation. Her work focuses on health policy issues of importance to women, with an emphasis on health care financing, coverage, and access to care for underserved women. She also directs the Foundation's KaiserEDU.org project, an online educational resource for students and faculty in health policy. Before directing the Foundation's work in women's health policy, Dr. Salganicoff as an Associate Director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Dr. Salganicoff has written numerous book chapters, journal articles, and reports on health care access and financing for low-income women and children. She also serves as a member of many different national, state and Federal advisory committees on women's health. Before working at the Kaiser Foundation, she has was a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University, on the health program staff of the Pew Charitable Trusts, and a trainer and counselor for CHOICE, a Philadelphia-based, reproductive health care advocacy organization. Dr. Salganicoff completed her undergraduate degree at Pennsylvania State University and holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Salganicoff was born in Argentina and is also fluent in Spanish.

2400 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park  California  94025
United States
Office Phone: 
(650) 854-9400
Office Fax: 
(650) 854-4800

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