Brandon G. Wilson, DrPH, MHA is the Senior Director of Community Catalyst’s Center for Community Engagement in Health Innovation. The Center conducts community-based research to better understand how inequities in the US health system drive poor health outcomes for historically excluded communities and drives practice and policy strategies based on its findings. Dr. Wilson leads a dedicated team of health policy, research, and community engagement professionals who are driving people-centered financing and payment structures that are transparent, pay for value, are developed with communities; advocating for seamless integration of health and social supports that respond to the needs and preferences of communities; and, provides training and capacity building to health justice advocates to authentically and meaningfully engage in health sytem transformation and innovation decisions at federal, state and local levels.

Previously, Dr. Wilson served as a senior public health advisor with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of Minority Health (OMH). Dr. Wilson led OMH’s efforts on sexual orientation and gender inclusion data collection, policy efforts in post-acute care settings, and social determinants of health; developing the business case for health equity; and a disability justice portfolio. In 2021, Dr. Wilson was recognized by CMS Administrator Seema Verma for collaboration and leadership in addressing health care accessibility and quality for people with disabilities considering the disparities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and for superior and unwavering support of the American people. Dr. Wilson also led two models at CMS Innovation Center (the Accountable Health Communities Model and the Health Care Innovation Awards) and spearheaded its health equity working group, which laid the foundation the Centers’ embedding of health equity into its strategic plan.