Melody Calkins

Director, Healthcare Policy at Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)

Speaker

Melody is the Director of Health Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), where she leads the organization’s public policy efforts around the IRA, Medicare Part D, state PDAB regulations, and other policy issues. Before joining BIO, Melody worked for the District of Columbia, where she proposed and finalized dozens of rules and regulations governing the District’s Medicaid managed care program, including 1115 waiver renewals and submissions of the District’s State Plan Amendment to CMS. Melody began her career in DC as one of the youngest candidates selected for the competitive Google Public Policy Fellowship, where she developed solutions to improve healthcare price transparency using health information technologies. Melody earned her Bachelor’s in Public Policy at the City University of Hong Kong and her Master’s degree in Healthcare Compliance at Drexel University.