Joachim Roski, PhD, MPH
Managing Director,
High-Value Health Care Project,
Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform
Joachim Roski manages and directs the Center’s High-Value Health Care Project, which enhances the activities of the Quality Alliance Steering Committee and represents a broad public-private collaboration to achieve widespread use of valid quality and cost measures to improve medical care and make it easier for patients to get information about quality so they can make more informed health care decisions.
Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Roski oversaw activities pertaining to performance measure development, research, analysis, and public and private sector contracting at the National Committee for Quality Assurance. He also served as Director of Quality and Performance Effectiveness for Allina Health System in Minneapolis, and as Research Director in the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Roski has led multiple health care research or demonstration projects, including those funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the California Healthcare Foundation, and the U.S. Agency of Healthcare Quality and Research, among others. Dr. Roski earned his doctorate degree in health psychology from the University Trier, Germany, and his master’s degree in Public Health from the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health. He currently holds adjunct faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins University and the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.