Our Team
MHQP Staff
Prior to joining MHQP, Autumn interned at The Massachusetts Health Connector where she created initiatives to advance health equity in the state-based marketplace. She has worked with other non-profit organizations such as Fertility Within Reach where she helped write educational pamphlets on fertility issues in marginalized communities. Autumn has also interned for Alliance for Citizen Engagement where she published policy briefs on healthcare and incarceration.
Autumn received her B.S in Health Science from Boston University. In her free time, she enjoys going to concerts and spending time outside.
Prior to joining MHQP, Julia interned at the Right Care Alliance (RCA), a grassroots coalition working to put patients’ voices at the center of healthcare. She has also worked in research involving health disparities at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center.
Julia received an MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University and a BA in Political Science from Boston University. In her free time, she enjoys reading and baking.
Jim has over 30 years of experience in healthcare analytics in both provider and insurance settings. Most recently, Jim held analytic leadership positions at the Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization and Steward Health Care Network, directing teams that analyzed and reported cost and utilization performance metrics. During Jim’s sixteen years at Tufts Health Plan, he supported Senior Product enrollment and payment, Medicare risk adjustment programs, Medicare Part D implementation and analytics and provider risk contract financial reconciliation.
Outside of MHQP, Jim regularly performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Jim received an A.B in Biology from Harvard College and an S.M in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Outside of work Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and children, primarily shuttling between their myriad sporting events. He also writes music and plays with a small collective of musicians. Andrew received a BA in History at Connecticut College.
Janet has over 25 years of experience in accounting and finance. Prior to joining MHQP, Janet spent 10 years as a Financial Analyst for Millipore Corporation responsible for financial analysis for a worldwide sales division. Prior to Millipore Corporation, Janet worked at Ernst & Young in public accounting, performing audits for industries such as manufacturing, real estate, and healthcare, and becoming certified as a C.P.A.
Janet received a Master’s in Business Administration from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Boston College. In her free time she enjoys spending time walking with her family.
Jason brings over 25 years of experience in data analytics and design. Prior to joining MHQP, Jason was an Applications Developer for the State Street Corporation in Boston. At this organization, he was responsible for creating and maintaining systems used to improve operating efficiencies within the organization. Previously, Jason was a Programmer/Analyst for the Picker Institute, a Boston-based nonprofit organization that reported on the quality of patient-centered care in Massachusetts.
Jason received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a focus on Management Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In his free time he enjoys photography, spending time with his wife and two kids, and as a native of the “dairy state” of Wisconsin, he is an avid cheese enthusiast.
Natalya is dedicated to promoting and researching evidence-based improvements in the quality of healthcare through an equity lens. Prior to joining MHQP, Natalya conducted research for the Department of Exercise Science at Skidmore College. She has also partnered with Shape Up Somerville, an organization that strives to build healthy and equitable communities, to implement a community-based project aimed at collecting baseline health status data. Natalya also volunteers with the Right Care Alliance, a grassroots coalition that works to center the patient’s voice in healthcare.
Natalya received an MPH from Simmons University and a B.Sc. in Health & Exercise Science from Skidmore College. In her free time, she enjoys running and drawing.
She is a member of the Milbank Advisory Committee for the Health of US Primary Care Scorecard, the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services Quality Measure Alignment Task Force and Quality Subcommittee, the Massachusetts Health Equity Data Standards Technical Advisory Committee, and the Betsey Lehman Center Measurement and Transparency Task Force. She also serves as a public member on the Board of the American Board of Family Medicine and the Board of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum.
Ms. Rabson received her Master’s degree in Public Health from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. In her free time, she enjoys sculling on the Charles River and playing her cello.
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Barbra Rabson is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP). Under Barbra’s leadership since 1998, MHQP has become one of the most trusted names in performance measurement and public reporting of health care information in Massachusetts and in the nation. She has led MHQP to issue three first in the nation statewide public releases of hospital and physician performance information, including the first in the nation collaboration with Consumer Reports to jointly release performance results on MA primary care physicians on a statewide patient experience survey.</p>
<p>Barbra is a member of the MA Executive Office of Health and Human Services Quality Measure Alignment Task Force and Quality Subcommittee. She is also a founding member and past Board Chair of the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI), a national network of regional health improvement collaboratives.</p>
<p>Barbra received her Masters in Public Health from Yale University and her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. She enjoys sculling on the Charles River and playing her cello in her free time.
Prior to coming to MHQP, Jonathan served for five years as the Senior Director of Marketing, Communications and Technology for the National Institute for Children’s Health Quality (NICHQ) and ten years as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Prior to that, he was Director of Communications for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) and Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP). He received an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA from Oberlin College.
Prior to working for the Bank, Ms. Rajan worked for Fidelity Investments as Senior Software Engineer. In this role, she developed/supported voice response applications and provided feedback with voice recordings on consumer service calls through a “Customer Satisfaction Index” application. She also worked as SAS Programmer and as VRU Developer, using VoiceXML Applications. Ms. Rajan started her career at Parexel International, working with a group of statisticians as SAS Programmer to produce FDA approval reports on clinical trials for various pharmaceutical companies.
Raji received a Master’s in Business Administration from Clark University, a Master’s in Applied Statistics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Stella Maris College, India. She enjoys cooking a range of international cuisines with her husband and watching movies with her family.
Prior to joining MHQP, Nicolle worked as an Acute Care and Evaluation Registered Nurse in Addiction Medicine. In addition to her patient care experience, she has co-facilitated multiple qualitative health service research projects as a Graduate Research Assistant at Yale University, Department of Emergency Medicine, and as a Research Coordinator for the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Nicolle received a BA in Ethnic Studies from Brown University, where she designed a concentration in Social Justice, Wellness, and Community Health. She attended Yale University’s Graduate Entry Program in Nursing, where she completed the requirements for RN licensure. In her free time, Nicolle is a mixed media creator, comedy enthusiast, and avid mental health advocate.
Prior to joining MHQP, Symone interned for Butler Hospital Memory and Aging Program, recognized as a center for clinical research in Alzheimer’s. She has also worked as a research assistant at Boston University, conducting qualitative interviews to identify barriers and facilitators to lung cancer screening among underserved populations.
Symone received an MPH from Boston University and a B.S. in Health Studies from the University of Rhode Island. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, traveling, and spending time with her loved ones.