Liderança

Laura Spadaro, MHA

Vice-Presidente e Diretor dos Cuidados Primários e da Política de Saúde Pública

Sobre

Laura Spadaro is vice president and chief primary care and public health policy officer for The Wright Center. She helps guide, develop and advocate for public health policies and strategies that promote overall population health through systematic efforts to advance prevention, reduce chronic disease burden, and address socioeconomic determinants of health, as well as disparities in both care access and health outcomes.

A National Health Education Honoree, Spadaro earned her bachelor’s degree in public health from Temple University. She served as a public health intern with the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and joined the Pennsylvania Department of Health as an executive intern in the Office of the Secretary in 2018, before being promoted to Executive Assistant and then Executive Advisor for former Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, and Executive Deputy Secretary, Sarah Boateng.

Durante o seu mandato no Departamento de Saúde da Pensilvânia, prestou aconselhamento sobre diversas iniciativas de saúde pública, incluindo soluções inovadoras para lidar com a violência, a toxicodependência, a pobreza e questões de saúde ambiental. Liderou, nomeadamente, o Programa de Tratamento Assistido por Medicamentos Coordenado da Pensilvânia (PacMAT), uma iniciativa considerada um modelo de rede nacional de referência para programas abrangentes de tratamento de opiáceos.