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Craig Wilson, JD, MPA, is ACHI's president and CEO. Wilson’s work has included leading healthcare workforce strategic planning efforts to improve sufficient access to care for Arkansans statewide, resulting in the publication of the Arkansas Health Workforce Strategic Plan: A Roadmap to Change and a subsequent detailed analytical report entitled, Arkansas Health Care Workforce: A Guide for Policy Action. His work with private and public payers in Arkansas to obtain a consensus on an approach to patient-centered medical home development, including aligned quality measurement, led to Arkansas being selected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center as one of seven markets to participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative.

Wilson has also worked with the Arkansas Insurance Department in the development of policies for the Health Insurance Marketplace, with a particular focus on aligning quality measurement and reinforcing ongoing quality initiatives in the state. Additionally, he influenced the development of the Arkansas Healthcare Transparency Initiative, a unified source for healthcare data that has supported numerous research projects and healthcare policy decisions.

Articles and guest columns authored or co-authored by Wilson on health policy issues have been published in numerous state and national periodicals. He also hosts ACHI’s podcast, Wonks at Work, which seeks to demystify complex healthcare topics for listeners and has welcomed dozens of experts as guests since 2020.

Wilson is a graduate of Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. He is an attorney licensed to practice in Arkansas, having earned his Juris Doctorate from Georgia State University College of Law and a Master of Public Administration degree from Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta.