Drawing from her leadership experience with implementing health reform in Massachusetts and across the US, Rosemarie Day (HKS MPP ’92) will explore the possibility of making healthcare a right in the US. She will address related factors, including the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the current political landscape, and how leadership at all levels can make a significant difference.

Rosemarie Day is the founder and CEO of Day Health Strategies, a successful mission-driven, woman-owned consulting firm that will celebrate its 14th anniversary this year.  She is also a mother, a breast cancer survivor, and an activist.  Rosemarie served as the founding Deputy Director & Chief Operating Officer of the Health Connector in Massachusetts. At the Health Connector in 2006, she helped lead the launch of health reform in Massachusetts, which became the model for the Affordable Care Act. Prior to this role, she was the Chief Operating Officer of the Massachusetts Medicaid program, among other state leadership positions. She has been working on health reform ever since and is passionate about universal healthcare and women's health issues. Rosemarie is the author of Marching Toward Coverage: How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare (Beacon Press, 2020). She recently became Chair of the Board of Trustees for Lawrence General Hospital. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Kennedy School (MPP, 1992).