Jo Porter

Josephine Porter, MPH, is a Consultant for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Jo joined the Institute in December 2007, as a project director. After serving as the Deputy Director for several years, Jo became the Director in 2015 and remained in that role until 2023. She co-chairs the All-Payer Claims Database Council (APCD Council), a partnership program of the National Association of Health Data Organizations and IHPP. Jo also served on the United States Department of Labor State All Payer Claims Databases Advisory Committee (SAPCDAC). She was an active participant in the Academy Health State-University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN) and served as chair of that group’s steering committee. Jo also served on the UNH Analytics Steering Committee and State of New Hampshire’s Governor’s Commission for Medicaid Care Management.

Jo brings many years of health care-related project management and program development experience to IHPP. She has private sector experience, including program management with Health Dialog, Inc., a care management firm. She also previously served as the Associate Director of the New Hampshire Health Information Center at UNH and was the NH BRFSS state coordinator for the NH Department of Health and Human Services. 

Her research interests are in health data collection and dissemination and using data to effectively improve health care quality.

Education

• M.P.H., Epidemiology/Biostatistics and Social and Behavioral Health, Boston University
• B.S., Microbiology, University of New Hampshire