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Lindsey Leininger, PhD MA, Co-founder & Advisor
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Lindsey Leininger is a clinical professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She specializes in data-driven health policy, with a focus on the health care safety net and community health. She has a longstanding interest in publicly funded health insurance programs, with related research spanning quality measurement, risk segmentation, and program evaluation. Her community health work focuses on health education and promotion initiatives. At Tuck she teaches courses on data-driven decision-making in the health sector. She also serves as Faculty Director for the Center for Health Care. Prior to Tuck, Lindsey spent a decade designing and leading research and technical assistance projects for Medicaid agencies, both as an academic and as a think-tank researcher. She holds a PhD in health policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Lindsey was a co-founder of Those Nerdy Girls and served as inaugural CEO of the team’s Dear Pandemic campaign.