Ray Campbell JD, MPA

About Ray.

Ray Campbell is an Instructor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health where he teaches the class “Health Data and Public Policy” and runs an executive education program on health equity, artificial intelligence, and data ethics.  From 2016 through the end of 2022, Ray was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA), an independent regulatory authority with extensive authority to collect data and perform analyses of the Massachusetts healthcare system to support policymaking, public health, and healthcare improvement efforts.

Prior to CHIA, Ray was a Commissioner and the Acting Executive Director of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission, the largest self-insured purchaser in the New England commercial healthcare market, with an annual budget of $2.8 billion and 425,000 covered lives at the time.  Before that, Ray spent seven years as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium, a multi-stakeholder non-profit working on state and federal healthcare IT, health information exchange, and data interoperability projects with all the major healthcare stakeholders in Massachusetts.

Ray has also worked as a lawyer in the public and private sectors, as a consultant, and as the Executive Director of a Massachusetts quasi-public authority that provided Internet and distance learning services to K-12 schools, state agencies, and municipalities.  Ray has a long history as an early adopter of information technology, most recently focusing on data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.