Len Finocchio was a senior program officer for the foundation’s Health Reform and Public Programs Initiative. Prior to joining CHCF, Finocchio worked as a health policy and research consultant specializing in health services program design and development, particularly for uninsured children. He has worked as associate director at the Institute for Health Policy Solutions in San Mateo, California; as a principal policy associate at Children Now in Oakland, California; and as associate director for state programs at the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for the Health Professions. He currently leads the Blue Sky Consulting Group’s health care practice.

Finocchio received a doctor of public health, with a concentration in health policy, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of California, Davis.