Madeleine Ballard

Biography

Dr. Madeleine Ballard is the Executive Director of the Community Health Impact Coalition, network of health delivery organizations in 40+ countries working to ensure community health workers get the fair pay, supplies, and ongoing support they need so everyone can have access to high quality healthcare. Dr. Ballard is also an Assistant Professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She holds a PhD in evaluation science (EBSI) from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and was previously the founding Program Manager at Last Mile Health.

With the Coalition, she builds the collective action networks required to conduct (i) large-scale research on the practices that enable community health workers to deliver better care to more people and (ii) advocacy to ensure those practices get adopted by health systems everywhere. Join us: www.chwimpact.org