Marthe Gold, M.D., M.P.H.
Chair
Committee Public Health Strategies to Improve Health
Institute of Medicine

Marthe Gold, M.D., M.P.H.,  is the 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, her clinical training is in family practice and she has practiced in urban and rural underserved settings.  She served as faculty at the University of Rochester School of Medicine from 1983-90 and from 1990-1996 she was Senior Policy Adviser in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Her focus at DHHS was on financing of clinical preventive services and 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, issued in 1996, remains an influential guide to cost-effectiveness methodology for academic and policy uses.  Dr. Gold’s current research focuses on public and decision maker views on use of economic and comparative effectiveness information to inform resource allocation decisions. A member of the Institute of Medicine, she is currently serving as Chair of the Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health, whose first report: For the Public’s Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability was released in December 2010.