Karen VanLandeghem is a senior program director at NASHP where she leads the organization’s portfolio of work on child and family health, including work on children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN), maternal health and children’s mental health. She has spent the majority of her career working at the national and state levels for health policy and education organizations and state government, bringing to her NASHP position expertise in child and family service delivery systems, behavioral health, public insurance coverage, and early childhood development. Prior to joining NASHP in 2014, VanLandeghem worked as a senior advisor at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs (AMCHP) where she led efforts to build the organization’s portfolio of work on health reform. She has held previous positions with the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership, the Ounce of Prevention Fund (Chicago), and AMCHP among other organizations and as a consultant on several national initiatives including the Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI). She is adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health. She has held leadership roles in the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Maternal and Child Health. VanLandeghem holds a BS in biology from Wayne State University and a MPH from the University of Michigan.