Lauren founded NourishedRx to support health plans and at-risk providers’ efforts to address the most actionable and critical non-clinical needs of their members and patients – nutrition and social isolation.Prior to NourishedRx, Lauren was a senior leader in the Strategy practice at Leavitt Partners, a “Health Intelligence'' firm founded by former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Michael Leavitt. Lauren served as Corporate Director of Oxford Health Plans, where she led Oxford’s Medicare business.Lauren is co-chair of the United States of Care, Entrepreneurs Council. Lauren is also a Board Member at Village Health Works, a healthcare organization that addresses the root causes of illness, poverty and neglect in Burundi, Africa. She has served as the Acting Executive Director of Village Health Works, as well as the Chair of the Kigutu Hospital Development Committee. She was faculty at Singularity University’s Exponential Medicine 2016 conference – addressing the potential of technology to democratize healthcare in the developing world.Lauren grew up in Baltimore, MD. She received her BA from the University of Virginia and her Master’s in Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.