Melinda K. Abrams, M.S., is executive vice president for programs at the Commonwealth Fund, where she has responsibility for the development and management of the Fund’s grant programs. Since coming to the Fund in 1997, Ms. Abrams has worked on the Fund’s Task Force on Academic Health Centers, the Child Development and Preventive Care program, led the Patient-Centered Coordinated Care Program, and most recently was the senior vice president of the Delivery System Reform and International Health Policy programs. Ms. Abrams has served on many national committees and boards for private organizations and federal agencies and is a peer-reviewer for several journals. Ms. Abrams was the recipient of a Champion Award from the Primary Care Development Corporation and a Primary Care Community/Research Leadership Award from the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative. Ms. Abrams 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.

Dr. Yalda Jabbarpour is Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, Associate Professor of family medicine at Georgetown University and a practicing family physician. She graduated from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2008 and completed her residency at the Georgetown University/Providence Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program. Upon graduation she worked as a family physician for Scripps Health Medical Group in San Diego, California.  She returned to Washington, DC in 2015 to serve as the Robert L Phillips Health Policy Fellow at the Robert Graham Center.  During this time, she practiced clinically at Unity Healthcare, the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Washington DC.  After fellowship, Dr. Jabbarpour was full time faculty at the Georgetown University School of Medicine before moving to the Robert Graham Center in 2018. Her research focuses on primary care workforce and payment issues including understanding how primary care investment and payment models impact the delivery of primary care in the United States. 

Christopher F. Koller is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund and Publisher of the Milbank Quarterly. The Fund is a more than 100-year-old operating foundation that improves population health and health equity by connecting leaders with evidence and sound experience. Before joining the Fund in 2013, he served the state of Rhode Island for eight years as the country’s first health insurance commissioner. Prior to that, he was CEO of Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island. He has served in numerous national and state health policy advisory capacities and was elected to the National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine in 2023. Mr. Koller is also a professor of practice in the School of Public Health at Brown University.