Barbra G. Rabson is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP). Under her leadership, MHQP has become a national leader in the measurement and public reporting of health= care information, with a particular focus on measuring and improving patients’ experiences of care. In the past few years, Ms. Rabson has focused the organization’s work around three main areas of impact: improving patient experiences, advancing health equity and strengthening primary care. Of particular note is her role leading MHQP’s recent work to create a dashboard to monitor the health of primary care in Massachusetts in partnership with the Center for Healthcare Information and Analysis.
Ms. Rabson is on the Board of the American Board of Family Medicine and is a member of the Milbank Advisory Committee for the Health of US Primary Care Scorecard. She serves on the newly created Massachusetts Primary Care Access, Delivery, and Payment Task Force, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Quality Measure Alignment Task Force and Quality Subcommittee and is on the Board of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum. Ms. Rabson received her Master’s degree in Public Health from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. In her free time, she enjoys sculling on the Charles River and playing her cello.
