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Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH, is the chief medical officer for Covered California, the health insurance marketplace under the Affordable Care Act that connects Californians with brand-name health insurance. Prior to this role, Alice served as deputy secretary for policy and planning and chief of clinical affairs for the California Health and Human Services Agency, where she led many of the Agency’s signature health policy initiatives on affordability and access and played a leadership role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She previously served as deputy director and chief medical officer for the San Francisco Health Network, the city’s $2 billion-a-year publicly funded healthcare delivery system. She is also a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. Alice is a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers as well as the boards of the National Council of Asian and Pacific Islander Physicians and the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. She is board president of the Health Access Foundation and The Health Initiative. Alice has published over 50 book chapters, research articles, and peer-reviewed articles, including in the New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. She is a graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health and is an alumna of the Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and the Soros Physician Advocacy Fellowship. Alice is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Health Innovators Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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