Meet the Council


Secretary Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, Chair

Statutory requirement: Secretary of Health and Human Services, ex-officio

Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, ChairPrior to being named Secretary for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS), Dr. Mahaniah had served as Undersecretary of EOHHS since April 2023. He was previously CEO of Lynn Community Health Center, where he led the transition into value-based care.

Dr. Mahaniah is a practicing physician in the field of addiction and primary care. An avid teacher and committed mentor, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. He holds an MBA from UMass Amherst, a medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University, and a BA from Haverford College.

 

 


Fay Donohue, Vice Chair

Statutory requirement: experience in health care delivery or health care management, appointed by the Governor

Fay DonohueFay Donohue is a health care organizational leader who has built cost and quality-focused health plan and care delivery systems, as well as navigated the rapidly changing regulatory environment to pioneer cost-effective expansion of services to under-served populations through Medicaid and Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges.

She recently retired as CEO of DentaQuest (2007-2015), one of the nation’s largest and most diversified oral health/eye care enterprises and, over nearly two decades, filled a diverse range of executive roles with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. 

DentaQuest, and its various subsidiaries and affiliates – including Delta Dental of Massachusetts – serves more than 24 million people across the country with both commercial and government dental and vision plans and programs.

Under Ms. Donohue’s direction, the DentaQuest Foundation expanded its support for oral health community engagement, education and policy support through $17 million in annual grants. And, through the DentaQuest Institute, she worked to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the oral health care delivery system.

Deeply committed to public service, she currently sits on the board, and is Chair, of the National Institute of Children’s Health Care Quality, and is past  Chair of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Association. She serves on the board of the Commonwealth Institute, is a Member of the Council of NovaSoutheastern University Dental School and is a member of the Massachusetts Women’s Forum. She also is a past Director of Operation ABLE, a nonprofit elderly job training and employment service and BMC Healthnet.

Ms. Donohue earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College, an MA from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an MBA from Boston College.


Currently Vacant

Statutory requirement: experience in cybersecurity, appointed by the Attorney General

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   This position is currently vacant.

 

 

 

 


Brent Benson

Statutory requirement: undesignated, appointed by the State Auditor

Brent Benson

Brent Benson is Director of Architecture and Data Platforms at Harvard Business School Online, Harvard Business School's online learning initiative. At HBS Online, Brent has helped develop an innovative learning platform based on active, social, case-based learning and has worked with his team to build a state-of-the-art data platform that incorporates Learning Analytics, Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning to evaluate and improve HBS Online's active, social pedagogy and its supporting technology, give learners actionable feedback, and increase the reach, inclusiveness, and equity of the online learning experience.

Before joining HBS in 2015, Brent worked for technology companies Oracle, Concentra, ICAD, and Harris Computer Systems in areas including constraint programming and programming language design and implementation. Brent holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Rochester and writes about Massachusetts politics and policy through a quantitative lens on the Mass. Numbers blog, Commonwealth Magazine, and other news outlets.


Commissioner Michael Caljouw

Statutory requirement: Commissioner of Insurance, ex-officio

Commissioner of DOI, Michael Caljouw Michael T. Caljouw is the Commissioner of Insurance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, appointed by Governor Maura Healey in October of 2024. As Commissioner, he oversees the Massachusetts insurance market, an approximately $70 billion industry that historically ranks near the top ten largest markets in the country and 27th globally.

Commissioner Caljouw is deeply committed to ensuring stable, affordable, and transparent insurance markets and safeguarding consumer interests. He has over three decades of public and private experience. Prior to this role, he directed Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ regulatory and policy portfolio, supervising their contracts division and the implementation of laws and regulations. He previously spent a decade in leadership positions in Massachusetts government at the Massachusetts Division of Insurance and the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation and led on emerging regulatory and policy issues, including comprehensive Massachusetts insolvency and cost containment laws. He was senior counsel at a national law firm and Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to the Massachusetts Senate Minority Leader.

Raised in Boston, Commissioner Caljouw graduated from Boston Latin School, Williams College and Suffolk University Law School, serving on the Law Review and earning his Juris Doctorate cum laude. He has taught at Boston University School of Law and is a frequent lecturer on critical regulatory and policy issues. He chairs the Board of Advisors of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy and is an active mentor to emerging leaders in public policy and insurance regulation. Commissioner Caljouw has received the Better Government Award, Suffolk University Law School’s Outstanding Alumni Service Award and the Arthritis Foundation’s Community Warrior Award.


Secretary Matthew Gorzkowicz

Statutory requirement: Secretary of Administration and Finance, ex-officio

Matthew GorzkowiczMatthew Gorzkowicz is the Secretary of the Executive Office for Administration and Finance. He has more than 25 years' experience in state finance and budgeting in the Commonwealth. He has served as the Associate Vice President for Administration and Finance at the University of Massachusetts President's Office for more than a decade, where he has had a direct role in setting the University’s long-range administrative and financial goals and managed the development of an annual operating budget of $3.8 billion.

Prior to UMass, Secretary Gorzkowicz worked in the Massachusetts Senate, the Department of Mental Health, the School Building Authority, and the Executive Office for Administration and Finance under Governor Deval Patrick, where he served as Assistant Secretary for Budget and then Undersecretary.

He is a graduate of Northeastern University and lives in Winthrop, MA with his wife and two children.


Adrianna McIntyre

Statutory requirement: experience with the use of big data open data and analytics, appointed by the Governor

Adrianna McIntyreAdrianna McIntyre is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She studies strategies to improve take-up and retention of health insurance and other social program benefits. She has been invited to present her findings before state and federal policymakers and her work has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Health Forum, and other peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. McIntyre graduated with a PhD from Harvard University's interdisciplinary health policy program in May 2021. She also holds a Master in Public Health and a Master in Public Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

From June 2015 to June 2016, she was a David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow in Washington, DC, where she worked in the office of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.


Alan Sager, PhD

Statutory requirement: health care economist, appointed by the State Auditor

Alan Sager, PhD Alan Sager is a professor of health law, policy, and management at the Boston University School of Public Health, where he has taught finance and planning for 80 semesters.  He has designed a "time banking" method of mobilizing voluntary aid for disabled citizens by creating a structured parallel economy of good deeds.  His analyses of urban hospital closings over 85 years found that closings harmed access while boosting costs. 

He has served as a vice-president of the former Health Planning Council for Greater Boston and as a trustee of the former Waltham Hospital.  He holds a BA in economics from Brandeis and a PhD in city planning from MIT.  

 

 


Executive Director David Seltz

Statutory requirement: Executive Director of the Health Policy Commission, ex-officio

David SeltzDavid Seltz is the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, which aims to modernize health care payment and delivery models to establish a more accountable, affordable system. Prior to this role, Mr. Seltz was the chief health care advisor for then-Senate President Therese Murray and served as the Special Advisor on health care for former Governor Deval Patrick (MA).

Through these positions, Mr. Seltz advised the passage of Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006 and Chapter 224 of the Acts of 2012. Mr. Seltz is a 2003 graduate of Boston College and originally from Minnesota.

 

 


Amie Shei, PhD

Statutory requirement: experience in health equity advocacy, appointed by the Attorney General

Amie SheiAmie Shei is President and CEO of The Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts. She leads the foundation’s efforts to advance health equity and regional equity in Massachusetts through advocacy, grantmaking, and thought leadership.

Prior to joining The Health Foundation, Dr. Shei worked in health care strategy and health economics and outcomes research consulting and taught community health at the undergraduate level. Her research and writing have been published by varied media outlets and health journals, including the Boston Business Journal, CommonWealth Magazine, Health Affairs, Public Health Reports, and The Boston Globe.

Dr. Shei currently serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations including Health Care For All, the Health Equity Compact, and the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. Her public service includes appointments by Governor Maura Healey to serve on the Children’s Trust Board of Directors and the Transportation Funding Task Force.

Dr. Shei earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Amherst College, a Master of Science degree in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a doctoral degree in Health Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She received several fellowships to support her dissertation research on the health impacts of an anti-poverty program in Brazil, including a Fulbright Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State.


Jean Yang

Statutory requirement: experience in finance and budgeting, appointed by the Governor

Jean Yang

Ms. Jean Yang is the President and CEO of Vinfen Corporation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving people with mental illnesses, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and other life changes.

Jean has twenty years of business and policy experience in the health care industry spanning across payer, provider, and government in the New England region. Prior to Vinfen, she was the President of Public Plans at Point32Health, where she led the company’s business segment that served Medicaid and other low-income populations. She also served as the Executive Director of the Boston Children’s Hospital Integrated Care Organization, where she led the development of the hospital’s inaugural Medicaid Accountable Care Organization. As a former public servant for the Commonwealth, Jean led the complex effort to implement the Affordable Care Act in Massachusetts, as well as being a policy influencer through her service on the Health Policy Commission and Group Insurance Commission. A native of China, Jean is a graduate of Peking University in Beijing and Harvard Business School. She is a 2017 awardee of Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Pinnacle Award.