Alina Salganicoff

Alina Salganicoff is a senior vice president and the director of Women’s Health Policy. As the founding director of the Women’s Health Policy Program, she leads KFF’s research and analysis of the impact of national and state policy developments on topics that affect women’s health and well-being, with a focus on the real-world impacts of policy changes on women most vulnerable to marginalization, discrimination, and chronic health challenges. Widely regarded as an expert on health care policy as it affects women’s health, Dr. Salganicoff has written and lectured extensively on issues ranging from maternity care and reproductive health services to aging and long-term care.

Over her career, Dr. Salganicoff has served on numerous federal, state, and non-profit advisory committees, including for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on topics such as women’s health research, preventive services, reproductive health equity, abortion quality, and sexually transmitted infections. Dr. Salganicoff previously served on the Institute of Medicine committee that established the preventive services for women covered under the Affordable Care Act. She continued this work for over a decade as a member of the Advisory Panel for ACOG’s Women’s Preventive Services Initiative. Additionally, she is an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Women’s Health Issues. Born in Argentina and a native Spanish speaker, Dr. Salganicoff holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in health policy from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.