Voices for Healthier Minds Interview Series with special guest, Rebecca Alderfer

Join Mental Health Colorado’s President & CEO, Vincent Atchity, and Rebecca Alderfer, CEO of the Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative (CPCQC).

Rebecca has over 25 years of experience in service to big goals and high impact targets. Her work combines strategy, policy, resource alignment, and tenacity to inspire and affect change across complex systems. Rebecca is a seasoned strategist; guiding US foreign assistance at the White House Office of Management and Budget, stemming global infectious diseases through the U.S. State Department and the Global Fund, increasing access to dental care for low income people and assessing housing policy during the Great Recession through the Pew Charitable Trusts, evaluating the capacity of the healthcare workforce in Colorado at the Colorado Health Institute, expanding mental health screening and access to care during pregnancy and postpartum for the ZOMA Foundation, testing mental health care strategy for SonderMind, and steering the 2022-2023 Maternal and Infant Health Initiative of the National Governor’s Association.

In March of 2023, Rebecca joined the Colorado Perinatal Care Quality Collaborative (CPCQC) as the CEO. CPCQC is on a mission to ensure that women and their families in Colorado receive culturally relevant, safe, equitable, high-quality care no matter who they are or where they live. In this role, Rebecca is a member of the Colorado Maternal Mortality Review Committee and the Colorado Hospital Association’s Maternal Health Clinical Excellence Sub-committee. She presents across the state and nationally on strategies to affect change in maternal and infant health outcomes.

Rebecca continuously serves Colorado and her community as an active volunteer. Most recently, she was a Board Member of Social Venture Partners of Boulder County from 2022-2024 and a multi-year judge for the Prime Health Innovation Challenge. Rebecca was also a Colorado Governor’s Leadership Fellow, served on the Lt. Governor’s Alternative Payment Model Alignment Advisory Group, and received an appointment by Gov. John Hickenlooper to the Nurse-Physician Advisory Taskforce for Colorado Health Care (NPATCH) for a two-year term.

Rebecca earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Iowa State University and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In 2003, she was selected for the elite Presidential Management Fellowship. She is the mother of two boys, a two-time triathlon medalist, and avid traveler.