Alice Hm Chen, MD, MPH is Chief Health Officer at Centene Corporation, the nation's largest Medicaid and Marketplace managed care organization, where she is responsible for strategies, policies and programs that improve population health for its more than 27 million members. Her career has focused on advancing the health of under-resourced communities through patient care, teaching, policy and leadership across health systems, public health, philanthropy, academia and government. Prior to joining Centene, Dr. Chen served as Chief Medical Officer at Covered California, the state’s health insurance marketplace, and as Deputy Secretary for Policy and Planning for the California Health and Human Services Agency, where she led signature health policy initiatives on affordability and access and played a leadership role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She was the inaugural Chief Medical Officer of the San Francisco Health Network, the City’s publicly funded, vertically integrated safety net delivery system. For over a decade Dr. Chen was a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, based at San Francisco General Hospital, where she served as its Chief Integration Officer and founding Director of the eConsult program. Dr. Chen is a graduate of Yale University, the Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Harvard School of Public Health. A primary care internist by training, she holds academic appointments at UCSF’s Institute for Health Policy Studies and at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center.