Alan Weil

Alan Weil is editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, the nation's leading journal at the intersection of health, health care, and policy. Weil is also director of the Aspen Institute's Health Strategy Group. Previously, he was executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, an independent, non-partisan, nonprofit research and policy organization; director of the Urban Institute's Assessing the New Federalism project; and executive director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. Weil is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He was an appointed member of the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission and a trustee of if, A Foundation for Radical Possibility and served on the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and the Board of Directors of the Essential Hospitals Institute.