This is how Margaret is a Changemaker:
Margaret Laws directs the Innovations for the Underserved program at the California HealthCare Foundation. In this role she oversees the Foundation’s work to reduce barriers to efficient, affordable care for the underserved. Specific objectives of the program include: encouraging, testing and promoting lower cost models of care, improving the availability of specialty and dental care underserved Californians, promoting policy and operational improvements to increase enrollment and retention in publicly-sponsored insurance programs, and increasing the efficiency of safety net institutions.
Ms. Laws joined the Foundation in 1998 after serving as staff to the state of California’s Managed Care Improvement Task Force. Prior to joining the Task Force she was a senior consultant and manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where she worked in both the government and health care strategy practices with clients including state health and human service agencies and payer and provider organizations.
Margaret has also worked as a consultant with the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, and for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, providing technical assistance in program development and operations for non-profits in developing countries. Earlier professional positions include consultant for the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS and caseworker and analyst for the Commonwealth of MA Department of Public Welfare.
Ms. Laws holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and an A.B. in English Literature from Princeton University.
