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Elected to the SRA board in 2005, Gail Wilensky is an economist and Senior Fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation. She analyzes and develops policies relating to health care reform and changes in the health care environment. Wilensky is a commissioner in the World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and is on its Governing Council; IOM is part of The National Academies of Science and Engineering. She is also Vice Chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission and a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America, the American Heart Association, and the National Opinion Research Center. Wilensky is an advisor to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund, immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of Academy Health, and a director on several corporate boards.
From 1997 to 2001, Wilensky chaired the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on payment and other issues relating to Medicare; and from 1995 to 1997, she chaired the Physician Payment Review Commission. From 2001 to 2003, she co-chaired the President’s Task Force to Improve Health Care Delivery for Our Nation’s Veterans, which included health care for both veterans and military retirees. Wilensky was the Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1990 to 1992, and from 1992 to 1993 she served as Deputy Assistant to President Bush for Policy Development, advising him on health and welfare issues.
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