Magnan, Sanne, MD, PhD
Senior Fellow, HealthPartners Institute

Title: Senior Fellow

Other offices/titles: Co-chair, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine; Member, Epic’s Population Health Steering Board; Member, Healthy People 2030 Engagement Subcommittee; Board member, Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (2018-present); Minnesota Commissioner of Health (2007-2010); President, Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement (ICSI) (2006-2007); President & CEO, ICSI (2011-2016).

Academic appointment: Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Year joined the Institute: 2016

Education and training: MD and PhD in medicinal chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Overview/research interests: To provide leadership for improving health (physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being) in our communities through the redesign of care, redesign of incentives and citizen and community engagement to improve the social determinants of health.

Publications

selected publications

Journal Article
- Reduction in US health care spending required to meet the Institute of Medicine's 2030 target. American Journal of Public Health. 2020
- Purchasing population health - revisited. Population health management. 2019
- Faith-based assets and multi-sector community teams: tapping into deeply woven roots. North Carolina Medical Journal. 2018
- Improving hypertension control population-wide in Minnesota. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2018
- Potentially preventable hospital and emergency department events: lessons from a large innovation project. The Permanente journal. 2018
- Impact of a national collaborative care initiative for patients with depression and diabetes or cardiovascular disease. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
- Social determinants of health 101 for health care: five plus five. NAM perspectives. Discussion paper.. NAM Perspectives: Expert Voices in Health & Health Care. 2017
- The COMPASS initiative: description of a nationwide collaborative approach to the care of patients with depression and diabetes and/or cardiovascular disease. General Hospital Psychiatry. 2017
- Achieving accountability for health and health care. Minnesota Medicine. 2012
- The relationship of stage of change for smoking cessation to stage of change for fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity in a health plan population. American Journal of Health Promotion. 2004
- Physician smoking-cessation actions: are they dependent on insurance coverage or on patients?. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 2002
- Aids to quitting tobacco use: how important are they outside controlled trials?. Preventive Medicine. 2001
- Patient satisfaction and discussion of smoking cessation during clinical visits. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2001
- Failure of a continuous quality improvement intervention to increase the delivery of preventive services. A randomized trial. Effective Clinical Practice. 2000
- Improving prevention is difficult. Effective Clinical Practice. 2000
Editorial Article
- Changing the public's health story: reducing wasteful medical care spending-introduction to the special AJPH section [editorial]. American Journal of Public Health. 110. 2020
- Healthier people: setting targets for life expectancy and health care expenditures [editorial]. American Journal of Public Health. 110. 2020