Megan Collado is a senior director at AcademyHealth, where she directs several Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantmaking programs, including Community Research for Health Equity and Health Data for Action. Her primary responsibilities include project management, program design and implementation, research translation, and grantmaking and proposal evaluation. Megan also provides leadership as needed on AcademyHealth projects related to public health, health policy, community-engagement, and research impact assessment.
Prior to joining AcademyHealth in 2012, Megan provided research assistance at the Center for Managing Chronic Disease at the University of Michigan School of Public Health; at the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation, in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and at the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Earlier in her career, Megan served as the interim Director of Development for a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Cincinnati, Ohio. She received a B.A. in Spanish with a minor in gender and health studies and an M.P.H. in health management and policy from the University of Michigan.