- ACA Implementation & State Health Reform
- Coverage and Access
- Federal/State Issues
- Medicaid and CHIP
- Population and Public Health
- Providers and Services
- Acute Care
- Assisted Living
- Behavioral Health
- Case Management
- Child Development Services
- Chronic Care Management
- Community Health Centers
- Developmental Screening
- Early Childhood Services
- Emergency Care
- EPSDT
- Family Planning
- Federally Qualified Health Centers
- Home & Community Based Services
- Hospitals
- Long Term Services & Supports
- Medical Homes & Health Homes
- Mental Health
- Nursing Homes
- Oral Health
- Preventive Care
- Primary Care
- Safety Net Providers
- Quality, Cost, and Health System Performance
- ACOs
- Adverse Event Reporting
- Care Transitions
- Comparative Effectiveness
- Cost Sharing
- Delivery System Reform
- Fraud and Abuse
- Health Care Workforce
- Health Information Technology
- Managed Care
- Medical Homes & Health Homes
- Medical Malpractice
- Patient Safety
- Payment Reform
- Performance Measurement
- Provider Payment Policy
- Quality Oversight
- Specific Populations
- Adolescents
- Childless Adults
- Children
- Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Dual Eligibles
- Elders
- Families
- Low Income People
- Parents
- People with Chronic Conditions
- People with Developmental Disabilities
- Transitional Youth
- Vulnerable Populations
- Young Adults
- Youth
- Youth in Foster Care System
- Youth in Juvenile Justice System
Alan Weil has been executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) since September 1, 2004. NASHP is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with a mission of helping states achieve excellence in health policy and practice. NASHP’s 55-person staff, located in offices in Portland, Maine and Washington, D.C., conducts policy analysis, convenes meetings, and provides technical assistance to state officials in the executive and legislative branches.
Before coming to NASHP, Alan Weil was the director of the Assessing the New Federalism (ANF) project at the Urban Institute. One of the largest privately funded social policy research projects ever undertaken in the United States, ANF monitors, describes and assesses the effects of changes in federal and state health, welfare, and social services programs. Mr. Weil was formerly the executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. This cabinet position is responsible for Colorado’s Medicaid and Medically Indigent programs, health data collection and analysis functions, health policy development, and health care reform.
Mr. Weil is the editor, with colleagues, of two books: Welfare Reform: The Next Act and Federalism and Health Policy. He has authored chapters in a number of books and published articles in a broad range of peer-reviewed journals. He is a frequent speaker on health reform, Medicaid, and federalism. He has testified before Congress more than half a dozen times.
Mr. Weil was an appointed member of President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, which drafted the patient's bill of rights. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Board on Health Care Services, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, and the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performing Health System. He is a member of the editorial boards of Health Affairs and State Health Watch.
Mr. Weil received his bachelor's degree in economics and political science from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a master of public policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
