Karen VanLandeghem is a senior director at NASHP where she leads the organization’s portfolio of work on child and family health. She has spent her career working at the national and state levels for child health policy and advocacy organizations, and state government, bringing to her NASHP position expertise in maternal, child, and family service delivery systems, behavioral health, public insurance coverage, and early childhood health and development. Prior to joining NASHP in 2014, she was a senior advisor at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs where she led the organization’s efforts on health reform. She has held previous positions with the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership, the Ounce of Prevention Fund, and as a consultant on several national child health initiatives. She is adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health and held leadership roles in the American Public Health Association, Maternal and Child Health Section. She holds a BS in biology from Wayne State University and a Master of Public Health from the University of Michigan.