Lisa Aliferis is a senior communications officer focused on CHCF’s work to improve the integration of behavioral and physical health care, especially in Medi-Cal, and to advance the foundation’s market research and analysis publications.

Lisa came to the foundation after working as a health journalist for 25 years, most recently at KQED News in San Francisco, where she was founding editor of State of Health, a daily blog focusing on health policy and public health in California. She conceptualized and wrote KQED’s popular consumer resource Obamacare Explained: A Guide for Californians. Lisa’s work has also been published by NPR’s Shots, Kaiser Health News, and JAMA Internal Medicine. She has produced television news health stories for many outlets, including Dateline NBC. Lisa holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University. As part of her year as a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow in Health, she completed graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health.

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