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Melinda K. Abrams, MS

Melinda Abrams, M.S., assistant vice president at The Commonwealth Fund, directs the Patient-Centered Primary Care program. Since coming to the Fund in 1997, Ms. Abrams has worked on the Fund's Child Development and Preventive Care program, the Task Force on Academic Health Centers and the Commission on Women's Health.

Ms. Abrams has played a lead role in reviewing and modifying state policies regarding preventive health care for young children. She helped conceptualize and launch the Fund's Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) initiative in 1998–99, which awards grants to state Medicaid programs to encourage innovation in the financing and delivery of preventive and developmental services provided to low-income, young children.

Ms. Abrams has sat on advisory committees of various national organizations, including the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative and AcademyHealth. Prior to coming to the Fund, Ms. Abrams directed community outreach and public education activities for the Reproductive Rights Project of the New York Civil Liberties Union. She holds a B.A. in history from Cornell University and an M.S. in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health.