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Tanya Harris is the Executive Director of the Aspen Institute's Health Innovators Fellowship. Tanya served as the National Director of Health Care Operations at Planned Parenthood, where she advised leaders across the country on health policy, including the creation and implementation of a national strategy regarding health plan engagement and contracting. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the organization’s efforts to shift as many services as possible to telehealth. Prior to that, she was the Associate Director for the Office of Managed Care in the District of Columbia, which was responsible for Medicaid managed care plans serving 150,000 District residents. She also served as Chief of the AIDS Drug Assistance Program for the District of Columbia, overseeing the city’s $14 million program providing free medication to people living with HIV/AIDS. Tanya began her career working as a case manager with communities of color living with HIV in central Brooklyn and the South Bronx at the height of the AIDS pandemic in the United States. Tanya earned her B.A. from New York University and her graduate degree in health policy from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
