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= Diedra Henry-Spires =

Diedra Henry-Spires (born December 11, 1969) is an American health policy expert and advocate credited with being one of the Architects of Health Care Reform (the Affordable Care Act). She is currently the CEO of the non-profit advocacy organization - The Dalton-Daley Group, For Children and Families.

Early Life and Education
Diedra was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in New Rochelle, New York in Westchester County. Her parents, Theophilus and Sybil V. Henry were Jamaican immigrants who were worked as an Electrical Engineer and Teacher, respectively. Diedra graduated from Thornton Donovan School in 1987. Diedra is a Pennsylvania State University graduate holding a Bachelor's of Science in Health Policy and Administration, attended Hinksey Institute on Economics, Torbay and Oxford, England, and was awarded certification from the Harvard University – John F. Kennedy School of Government: Shaping the Health Care Delivery System.

Career
Diedra served for 10 years (1996-2006) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where she was the principal Public Health Advisor on violence against women for the Office on Women’s Health and as such developed national policies in violence against women, HIV/AIDS, and young women’s health. She also developed and administered contracts and grants to address policy objectives related to women’s issues.

In 2006, she received a Brookings Institution Fellowship and began her career on the United States Senate Committee on Finance until 2014. As a former professional staff  member serving as the chief democratic negotiator at the United States Senate Finance Committee, she is credited with creating and/crafting several pieces of legislation that improved health outcomes, prevented domestic violence, protected women's health choices, provided financial stability, reduced teen pregnancy, strengthened family preservation and  reduce child maltreatment.

Personal Life
Diedra resides in Prince George's County, Maryland with her husband and three children.

Selected Publications
MIECHV Reauthorization: Combating the Opioid Epidemic through Evidenced Based Home Visiting (2018) - https://thedaltondaleygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Updated-MIECHV-and-Opioid-Brief.pdf?x98931

Moving the Marker Forward: A Compendium of the Top 25 Child Welfare Recommendations in the last 25 years (2015) - https://thedaltondaleygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Moving_the_Marker-Final.pdf?x98931

Within Our Reach : A National Strategy to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities - https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cecanf_final_report.pdf