Andrew MacPherson

Andrew MacPherson (he/him) is the Founder and Board Chair of the Foundation for Social Connection Action Network and Co-founder of the Global Initiative on Loneliness and Connection. For more than 20 years, he has been at the forefront of healthcare policy development, coalition building, and advocacy in Washington, D.C., dedicating much of his career to advancing person-centered care and tackling the urgent public health crisis of social isolation and loneliness.

As a leading national advocate, Andrew has elevated this issue on the federal stage—delivering powerful testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and appearing in a CBS Evening News Eye on America segment to call for urgent action, particularly for older adults. He has spoken at major national forums, including HLTH and the End Well Symposium, and his thought leadership has been featured in The Washington Post, Health Affairs, and NPR.

In addition to his advocacy work, Andrew serves as Founding Principal and Managing Partner of Healthsperien, LLC, where he co-leads a team of over 40 experts shaping strategic policy and advancing solutions for Fortune 100 companies, national health plans, professional associations, coalitions, innovators, and non-profits. His portfolio includes combatting social isolation and loneliness, improving advanced illness and end-of-life care, advancing value-based insurance and payment models, and developing innovative solutions for public sector health plans.

Before founding Healthsperien in 2014, Andrew was Director of Government Affairs at Jennings Policy Strategies, where he advised on high-profile health reform efforts for the Obama and Clinton presidential campaigns, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s health reform initiatives with former Senate Majority Leaders Baker, Daschle, Dole, and Mitchell, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Earlier, he held leadership and advisory roles with the American Psychiatric Association, Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and the Democratic Governors’ Association.

Originally from Vermont, Andrew received a B.A. in Political Science from George Washington University in May 2005.