Keegan Warren

Keegan Warren, JD, LLM, is the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Access at Texas A&M University. She brings lived experience and a civil justice lens to bear on health and wellness, specializing in non-medical drivers of health and health equity. 

An attorney and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) director with over two decades of senior management experience spanning health and human services, she is a national expert on integrating medical and social services through medical-legal partnership (MLP), a care delivery model that leverages legal expertise to advance individual and population health. 

In addition to serving on the National Academy of Medicine's Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care consensus report committee, her project-based experience supporting behavioral health access includes integrated care delivery design, Part 2-compliant information-sharing across settings, medications for opioid use disorder throughout the criminal legal system continuum, advance care planning at the point of service, culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS), equity, and more. 

Keegan recently completed a multiyear term on the National Academy of Medicine Board on Health Care Services. 

In her spare time, she rows crew competitively; and hangs out with her undergraduate twin daughters, who study chemistry and linguistics, respectively, and her husband, Patrick, who is a national SME on sustainability.