Q&A with Madeleine Ballard

Abstract

Dr. Madeleine Ballard is the CEO of Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC), a global movement transforming healthcare by making professional community health workers the norm. Through research, advocacy, and organizing with community health workers, she has driven policy changes that ensure quality care for millions-including those who provide it. Dr. Ballard holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and is a faculty member at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Her work alongside CHIC has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, The Lancet, and more. She is the recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Innovation, the Roux Prize, and the Schwab Social Innovator of the Year-honors that reflect both her significant contributions to population health and her leadership in building powerful coalitions that achieve breakthrough reforms at a large scale.