Laurie Graham, MPH

Laurie Graham works at the intersection of healthcare, business and technology. She has 15+ years experience in consulting for national health plans, state and federal government. Her experience ranges from on-the-ground implementation of value-based payment and payer-provider partnerships to setting a vision for healthcare system transformation.

Laurie spent her formative years working in product strategy at Athenahealth Inc. before serving as Senior Policy Analyst to Connecticut's Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman, in the Office of Health Reform and Innovation (currently CT's Office of Health Strategy).

In 2018, Laurie joined Optum as Senior Director of Corporate Strategy where she facilitated the development of enterprise growth initiatives within Optum and United Health Group. At Optum, Laurie gained exposure to the nation's foremost leaders in healthcare driving transformative change in the U.S. healthcare system. She served as Vice President of Growth at Cotiviti in 2021-2022 before joining ARPA-H, a new federal agency aimed at funding breakthroughs in health. As a contractor at ARPA-H, she advises the agency on helping to ensure funded research will "survive in the wild" of the the greater U.S. healthcare ecosystem.

She holds a B.A. in Geography from George Washington University, and M.P.H. in health policy management from Yale University. In addition to consulting work, Graham is a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health and an adjunct professor at Boston University School of Public Health, where she also sits on the Advisory Board for the Health Policy and Management Department.