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Ray Baxter, Phd
Senior vice president, Community Benefit,
Research and Health Policy, Kaiser Permanente |
As a member of Kaiser’s National
Leadership Team, Dr. Baxter leads the organization’s
activities to fulfill its social mission, including care and
coverage for low income people, community health
initiatives, environmental stewardship, and support for
community-based organizations.
He also serves as President of KP
International, and in 2004 he served as interim President for
Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California Region, serving over 3
million members.
Dr. Baxter has earned a national reputation
for his work in public health, health systems reform, and health
policy. He has worked as an executive, consultant and researcher
with government and the private sector at the state, local and
national level. He has more than 30 years of experience managing
public health, hospital, long-term care and mental health
programs, including heading the San Francisco Department of
Public Health and the New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation. Dr. Baxter also led The Lewin Group, a health
research, policy and consulting firm headquartered in
Washington, D.C., where he directed a national initiative for
the United Auto Workers and the auto industry to assess and
improve local health system performance. He has written and
spoken extensively on the critical issues of health and health
care. Dr. Baxter holds a doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton
University.
In 2001 the University of California,
Berkeley, School of Public Health honored him as a Public Health
Hero for his service in the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In
September 2006 he received the CDC Foundation Hero Award for
addressing the health consequences of Hurricane Katrina by
supporting public health teams in the Gulf Coast, and for his
longstanding commitment to improving the health of communities.
Dr. Baxter currently serves on a number of
national boards and committees, including The Center for
Corporate Citizenship, Boston College; the University of
California, Berkeley, School of Public Health; Grantmakers in
Health; and the National Public Health and Hospital Institute.
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