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Alexandra Schweitzer

Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Alexandra Schweitzer is a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. She is an expert at leading complex new ventures and transformation initiatives from strategy through successful execution. Her health care sector experience spans payers, providers, state government, and specialized analytics and managed care organizations. Schweitzer has built and led value-based integrated systems of care, including tools to address social determinants of health, in innovative health plans and provider-payer organizations, including a fully-integrated dual eligible Special Needs Plan, two Medicaid ACOs, and Iora Health, a national primary care organization known for its relationship-driven, technology-enabled care model. Schweitzer has a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. A lifelong learner, she has completed an executive MBA at Columbia University and other post-graduate programs. Her research project as a senior fellow is entitled, Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Why Some Initiatives Thrive and Others Don’t.