Beyond the Data from Drew Altman

In his regular Beyond the Data columns, President and CEO Drew Altman discusses what the data, polls, and journalism produced by KFF mean for policy and people. 

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Untold KFF History Volume 1:  South Africa

As KFF approaches a leadership transition next year, Founding President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman will share a series of occasional columns about key moments in the organization’s 37-year history. The first in the series recalls KFF’s (then called the Kaiser Family Foundation) decades-long commitment to South Africa during and after apartheid. Dr. Altman will continue his regular columns about health policy. “The greatest privilege of my life was to be able to work with Nelson Mandela, and I sometimes wonder what he would make of today’s state of affairs here and in South Africa,” he writes.

Making KFF Less Mysterious Again

KFF Founding President and CEO Drew Altman addresses occasional confusion about our name, how we operate, how to describe KFF, and why we’re called KFF today.

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