Craig Brammer

Craig Brammer is Chief Executive Officer of The Greater Cincinnati Health Council, the Health Collaborative and HealthBridge, and is responsible for overseeing the strategy and coordination of the community’s health improvement initiatives and positioning the organizations for continued growth. The work includes executing a growing number of complex programs, attracting additional funding, and showcasing the success of the region as a national model for health care transformation. For the people of Greater Cincinnati, the result will be continued progress toward better health, better care and lower costs. Brammer, a Cincinnati native, has been working in Washington D.C. for the past 2 ½ years where he has led the Beacon Community Program in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and serves as the Director. The Beacon Community Program is a federally funded project to increase the quality, efficiency and sustainability of health care through health information technology (health IT). Brammer is familiar to the Greater Cincinnati health care community. Prior to serving in the federal government, he worked at the Health Collaborative where he was the Director of the local Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) program grant, the signature health care improvement initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He holds a faculty position at the University of Cincinnati.Brammer earned his Masters in Organizational Behavior at the University of Cincinnati and has authored numerous studies on health policy, health IT, performance measurement and quality improvement.