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Chair
Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health
Institute of Medicine
Arthur C. Logan Professor and Chair
Department of Community Health and Social Medicine
Sophie Davis School of Bio-Medical Education
City University of New York Medical School
138th Street and Convent Avenue
Marshak Science Building, Room 920
New York, NY 10031
Phone: 212/650-7794
E-mail: goldmr@med.cuny.edu

Marthe R. Gold, MD, MPH, is the Arthur C. Logan Professor and chair of the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at City College, New York. A graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine and the Columbia School of Public Health, Dr. Gold's clinical training is in family medicine and she has been a primary care provider in urban and rural underserved settings. She served as senior policy adviser in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1990 to 1996. Her focus at HHS was on financing of clinical preventive services and on the economics of public health programs. Dr. Gold directed the work of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, an expert panel whose report remains an influential guide to cost-effectiveness methodology for academic and policy uses. Her current academic work focuses on public and decision-maker views on use of economic and comparative effectiveness information to inform health policy. She chaired the Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health, which was convened in 2009, and whose three reports on measurement, law and policy, and funding were released between 2010 and 2012.