Diane Rowland is executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured and executive vice president of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She is an adjunct associate professor in the department of health policy and management at the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University, president of the Association for Health Services Research, and a Brookdale Senior Fellow.
Rowland is a noted authority on health policy, Medicare, and Medicaid. Her federal health policy experience includes the staff of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce in the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress, as well as several senior health policy positions in the Department of Health and Human Services, in the Office of the Secretary and the Health Care Financing Administration. Rowland specializes in issues related to health insurance coverage, access to care, and health care financing for low-income, elderly, and disabled populations, and has published widely on these subjects. She is the editor of Financing Home Care and The Medicaid Financing Crisis: Balancing Responsibilities, Policies, and Dollars, and is a co-author of Medicare Policy: New Directions for Health and Long-Term Care of the Elderly and Health Care Cost Containment: Lessons from the Past and a Policy Proposal for the Future.
Rowland holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, a master's in public administration from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a doctor of science in health policy and management from the Johns Hopkins University.