Anya Rader Wallack is the Administrative Director of the Advance-RI Clinical Translational Research (CTR) Program at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine and a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice within Brown University’s School of Public Health.
Anya served previously in Rhode Island state government as Director of HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s health insurance exchange, then Medicaid Director, and then Acting Secretary of Health and Human Services. She also has served in Vermont state government as Chair of Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board, and as Special Assistant for Health Reform for two Governors.
Outside of state government, Anya has been interim President of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute and a consultant specializing in state health policy. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President for Strategic Communications for the University of Vermont Health Network.
Anya holds a Ph.D. in social policy from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
