Lani Graham, MD, MPH

Lani Graham is a Family Practice physician with a master’s degree in public health. She is a Maine native with a long history of interest in health care services for the medically underserved. This has included a year of providing care within the Massachusetts prison system. In Maine, she has served as the Director of the Maine Bureau of Health and Maine’s Chief Public Health Officer. Dr. Graham also served as Medical Director of Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Until 2017, Dr. Graham was Director of the Medical Professionals Health Program, a program that serves medical professionals with mental health or substance-use disorders. Dr. Graham is now retired but continues to work on a variety of medical and public health issues as a volunteer. Each year since her formal retirement, she has testified in the legislature on behalf of the Maine Medical Association or the Maine Public Health Association. In 2024, her ongoing work has been focused on health care reform, firearms safety, criminal justice, and a ban on flavored tobacco products.

Lani Graham, MD, MPH, has no actual or potential conflict of interest, financial relationship/arrangement, or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients.