David Rubin, MD, MSCE

Dr. Rubin is a national leader in developing health system and public program innovation to improve access and health outcomes for people across the United States. As Director of Population Health Innovation at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which serves over 500,000 children and adolescents annually, he has developed programs to improve the value and quality of health care services patients receive. His team is one of the few to have reported significant return on investment from integrated care models designed to reduce inpatient admissions for Medicaid-enrolled children. He leads a team of public health improvement advisors and data engineers who help integrated care teams prioritize workflows for their high-risk patients. His approach is generalizable for both adults and children, and has been tested across primary and specialty care populations.

Within PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and as Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rubin leads a team that includes 33 faculty members and more than 60 staff conducting research in the areas of population health, implementation science, and community-partnered research. He is also a senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and a former associate program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a past member of the Pentagon’s Military Family Readiness Council and a past Presidential appointee to the White House Commission to Eliminate Child abuse & Neglect Fatalities. He has authored more than 80 manuscripts spanning peer-reviewed research, policy analyses, and edited chapters in prominent pediatric texts, including seminal manuscripts in Health Affairs, JAMA and Pediatrics on quality of health coverage and access for children in low-income families and the delivery system interventions that can return value for public health programs. He is particularly drawn to the challenges of meeting the needs of patients receiving publicly funded health insurance, particularly through the Medicaid program. He has made numerous presentations to the medical profession and to city, state, and national leaders, including the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, to guide evidence-informed health policy decisions on behalf of children and families across the country.

Dr. Rubin is a practicing primary care pediatrician at the Faculty Practice of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, and a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in child maltreatment at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.