Lindsey Leininger

Clinical Professor of Business Administration;Faculty Director, Center for Health Care

Lindsey Leininger is a researcher and educator specializing in the health care safety net and public health. As an adolescent she spent her summers supporting community health workers across Latin America, sparking a lifelong passion for public health. She has a longstanding research agenda focused on publicly funded health care programs, with related work spanning performance measurement, predictive analytics, and program evaluation. She has also designed and led multiple health education and promotion initiatives. Highlights include leading an award-winning crisis communication campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic; designing and delivering a nationally recognized curriculum for public benefits navigators; and leading the monitoring and evaluation efforts for a home-visiting program supporting high-risk pregnant women. She is currently a Clinical Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she teaches courses in health analytics and health economics. She also serves as Faculty Director for Tuck’s Center for Health Care. Prior to Tuck, Lindsey spent a decade as an R&D contractor for local, state, and federal health care and social service agencies, both as an academic and as a think-tank researcher. She holds a PhD in health policy from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.