Alina Salganicoff is Vice President and Director of Women’s Health Policy for the Kaiser Family Foundation.  Her work focuses on health coverage and access to care for women, with an emphasis on challenges facing underserved populations, including low-income and uninsured women and women of color.  She also directs the Foundation’s KaiserEDU.org project, an online resource for students and faculty in health policy.

Before directing the Foundation’s work in women’s health policy, Dr. Salganicoff worked on the staff of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.  Dr. Salganicoff has written numerous book chapters, journal articles, and reports on health care access and financing for low-income women and children.  She has also worked as a Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University, on the health program staff of the Pew Charitable Trusts, and as a trainer and counselor for CHOICE, a Philadelphia-based, reproductive health care advocacy organization.

Dr. Salganicoff completed her undergraduate degree at Pennsylvania State University and holds a Ph.D. in Health Policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.