Alon Peltz, MD, MBA, MHS

Alon Peltz, MD MBA MHS is an Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.  Dr. Peltz leads a research portfolio focused on population health and spans the domains of quality measurement, insurance policy, and human-centered design. 

Over the past decade, Dr. Peltz has supported health systems and government agencies in an advisory capacity.  Dr. Peltz has served as Medical Director at Point32Health, Quality Measure Lead at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation, and Associate Medical Director for Payment and Care Delivery Innovation at Massachusetts Medicaid. In these roles, Dr. Peltz led the development and implementation of numerous ambulatory and facility-based quality measures, many of which have been adopted in federal and state value-based care programs. His extramurally funded research has also focused on advancing the use of machine learning to predict adverse health outcomes, understanding drivers of digital health adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, and improving the delivery and use of preventive health care services. 

Dr. Peltz received his MD and MBA degrees from Vanderbilt where he graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors and completed his clinical training in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Peltz completed fellowships in Health Sciences Research in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Clinical Scholars Program at Yale University and Human Centered Design in the Health-Provider-in-Residence Fellowship at IDEO.   

Dr. Peltz is a practicing general pediatrician and cares for infants, children, and young adults in the Boston Children’s Hospital Primary Care Center where he is an Attending Physician.