Minyard a Health Care Hero
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Georgia Health Policy Center Director Karen Minyard was selected as a finalist in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Health Care Heroes Awards in May.

Each year the publication honors organizations and individuals who have demonstrated excellence and deserve recognition in the health care community.

Minyard was nominated for the work she has done for rural communities in Georgia. Prior to becoming director of GHPC, she worked for years with rural Georgia communities, helping design systems that provide access to health care.

Minyard has logged more than 200,000 miles, traveling to rural communities throughout Georgia and helping to harness the local, state and national, public and private resources needed to improve health at the community level. Her work with Georgia communities has been cited as a model for the nation by the Center for the Study of Rural America.

Minyard earned a doctorate in business administration from Georgia State University, joined GHPC full-time in 1999 and became its director in 2002.

– Sallie Barker, GHPC