Robert Ferguson (PRHI)

Robert Ferguson (PRHI)

Director of Government Grants and Policy

Mr. Ferguson is director of government grants and policy for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and its supporting organizations, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and Health Careers Futures (HCF). He serves as the site director for Care of Mental, Physical, and Substance Use Syndromes (COMPASS) in Pennsylvania, an initiative led by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement and funded by a Health Care Innovation Award from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. COMPASS aims to integrate physical and behavioral health in primary care practices. Additionally, he provides support to the Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaborative (PHFC), a statewide network of 31 health foundations. PHFC strives to improve the effectiveness of health funders’ initiatives by collaborating, creating a unified voice among Pennsylvania health funders, and building knowledge of current developments and intersections in health philanthropy and health policy. Previously, Mr. Ferguson was the program manager for Partners in Integrated Care (PIC), an initiative funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that aimed to integrate physical and behavioral health in primary care practices using evidence-based models (IMPACT and SBIRT). In this role, he was responsible for PIC product development, federal reporting and assisting a national steering committee with policy development and multi-state implementation and dissemination. Prior to that, Mr. Ferguson held the position of program associate for the Integrating Treatment in Primary Care demonstration project, which piloted a combined model of IMPACT and SBIRT. While a student at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, he interned at the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Exercise and Health Fitness Research, at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services.


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