Amanda Folsom has over 12 years of experience managing health policy initiatives in the United States and abroad. She is a Senior Program Officer at the Results for Development Institute (R4D) where she provides program management and technical assistance for the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health. Prior to joining R4D she directed the AcademyHealth International Exchange Program, “Learning from Other Industrialized Health Systems,” and oversaw a new portfolio of International Health Study Tours. She also worked on several complementary projects at AcademyHealth, including the MacArthur Foundation initiative on the ethical recruitment of foreign-educated nurses, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Knowledge Transfer program, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Coverage Initiatives.

Previously Ms. Folsom was Deputy Director for Program Evaluation and Legislation for the Maryland Medicaid program where she led several public program design, implementation, and evaluation efforts. She also worked with the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She served for two years as a U.S. Peace Corps community health volunteer in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Ms. Folsom is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and holds a Masters in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.