Frederica Stahl is Senior Director of Programs for the Peterson Center on Healthcare. As Senior Director, she is accountable for designing and implementing the Center’s programmatic strategies and projects. Her work aims to advance the Center’s mission to transform U.S. healthcare into a high-performance system by working on systemic initiatives that encourage healthcare purchasers’ actions to improve quality and control healthcare costs.  

In this role, Frederica is responsible for forming strategic partnerships with foundations and key partners, including state and federal agencies, employer and other purchaser groups, researchers, health system leaders and practitioners. She leads the Center’s program team, which identifies, develops and oversees emerging investment opportunities and collaborations that deliver higher-quality care and lower healthcare costs, increase data transparency, and create an environment for change. 

Before joining the Center, Frederica worked in health information sciences, first as a researcher at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge, and from 2012 on as an entrepreneur and operations lead building an electronic patient record release company, Chart Request, which was acquired in 2015.  

Frederica received an MPhil in Quantitative Biological Anthropology from Cambridge University and a BA in History of Science from Harvard College.