Karen Minyard

Karen Minyard’s research interests include financing and evaluation of health-related social policy programs, with an emphasis on funding mechanisms that enable multisector collaboratives to sustainably finance health and well-being in local communities.

She is a research professor with the Department of Public Management and Policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and has led the Georgia Health Policy Center since 2001.

Dr. Minyard supports both the public and private sectors (e.g., government agencies, local collaboratives, and foundations) in developing high-leverage, innovative approaches to funding that support transformational efforts aimed at creating healthy and equitable communities. As part of these transformation efforts, Dr. Minyard recognizes the importance of raising community voice, developing equitable processes, and shifting power among sectors and people to improve population health and equity. Her work with communities focuses on changing the way organizations and communities work together and how inclusion of people with lived experience in decision-making can create sustainable systems change.

Recognizing the importance of scholarship for both research and practice, Dr. Minyard has published numerous journal articles, books, and book chapters; coproduced the documentary film Centering Community Voice; and served as an editor for journal special issues. Her research has been published in Health Services Research, BMC Public Health, the American Journal of Public Health, System Dynamics Review, and Foundation Review.

Dr. Minyard currently sits on the national Systems for Action National Advisory Committee, Pathways Community HUB Board of Directors, and the New York Federal Reserve Investing for Wellbeing Design Team.