Meet the Team
Michael Beachler
Director
Southern Rural Access Program/Rural Health Policy Center
mbeachler@psu.edu
As Director of the Rural Health Policy Center of the Penn State
University College of Medicine, Beachler serves as the program director
for the Southern Rural Access Program, a regional effort to improve
access to basic healthcare in eight of the most underserved rural
states
in the country. Previously, Beachler served as a senior program officer
for The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where he was responsible
for developing and overseeing several national grant programs. He
also
co-chaired the Grantmakers in Health Task Force on Maternal and
Child Health and served as convenor of the RWJF substance abuse
goal group. Earlier in his career, Beachler served as assistant deputy
commissioner for the Maine Department of Human Services. Beachler
received his Masters of Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh
in 1979.
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