Wendy Everett, ScD, is Chief Policy Officer at Health Equity Outcomes (HEO) and Vice President of Policy for ATLAS CLARITY LLC. She also serves as a senior advisor to various other national health policy organizations. 

In 2002 she formed the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI) and was its president and Chief Executive Officer for fourteen years. Along with NEHI’s founders, Wendy created NEHI as an independent, research-based organization that convened diverse members of the health care industry to achieve the common goal of addressing the most urgent health care issues. This collective vision resulted in ground-breaking research on medical innovation, patient safety, health care spending and health care information technology, which has influenced significant national health policy changes.  

Wendy held executive positions at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF). She directed national demonstration programs for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation and serves on the boards of many philanthropic, corporate and non-profit organizations.  She also was the Vice Chair for the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, an independent state agency that monitors the reform of health care delivery and payment systems in Massachusetts, providing a model for the nation.  

Wendy earned two bachelor of science degrees and holds master’s and doctoral degrees in health policy and management from Harvard University.

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Lindsay Everett

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