Mekleet Teferi joined GNYHA’s Legal, Regulatory, and Professional Affairs team in 2023. She is responsible for a broad range of operational and regulatory subject areas, including hospital building code and other facilities issues, emerging climate change policies, and digital health issues. Before joining GNYHA, Ms. Teferi worked in research compliance at NYU Langone Health. She also previously worked for the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. She earned her BA from Georgetown University and her MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.