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Alon Peltz

Assistant Professor

Dr. Alon Peltz is an Assistant Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Medical Director for Health Equity at Point32Health, and Attending Pediatrician at Boston Children's Hospital. His research focuses on population health and spans the domains of health equity, social determinants of health, health and social policy, and quality of care.

Dr. Peltz has previously worked as Associate Medical Director for Payment and Care Delivery Innovation at Massachusetts Medicaid and Team Lead at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation where he help led the design of performance outcome/quality measures used to assess health equity in national CMS programs.

Dr. Peltz received his MD and MBA degrees from Vanderbilt where he graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors. He received his clinical training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. Dr. Peltz went on to complete fellowship in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at Yale where he studied public policy changes related to the Affordable Care Act. Over the past decade, Dr. Peltz has spent time as a visiting fellow at the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, the CMS Innovation Center, and IDEO a global human-centered design firm.

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