Barbara Fain serves as Executive Director of the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, a nonregulatory Massachusetts state agency that supports providers, patients, payers, and policymakers working together to advance the safety and quality of health care.
Barbara’s career has been devoted to health policy development and analysis, public engagement, and strategic planning for government agencies, academic institutions, and healthcare provider organizations. Her work for the National Academy of Medicine and Massachusetts Department of Public Health focused on developing crisis standards of care for allocating scarce medical resources in pandemics and other disasters.
Before then, Barbara was executive director of a health policy research center at Harvard Law School. For over a decade she served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office where she spearheaded the state’s Community Benefit Guidelines for hospitals and health plans.
Barbara served a term on the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She also was adjunct faculty at the Tufts University School of Medicine where she taught public health law. She received her BA from Brown University, JD from UC Berkeley, and MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
