A family physician, her earlier career was in clinical practice both in rural and urban physician shortage areas. Prior to joining the faculty, 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 where her focus was on the economics and financing of clinical preventive services and public health. She was a member of the 1993 White House Task Force on Health care reform where she contributed to benefit design and protections for under served populations. Her recent research has focused on outcome measurement for medical care and public health and citizen deliberation as it applies to health policy. A member of the Institute of Medicine, she has contributed to a number of its reports. She currently chairs its Committee on Strategies to Improve Public Health Practice which is charged with issuing three report focusing respectively on measurement, law and policy, and financing.

B.S. 1976, Hunter College;
M.D. 1980, Tufts University School of Medicine;
M.P.H. 1986, Columbia University School of Public Health;
Internship and Residency, Family Medicine, 1980-83, Highland Hospital, University of Rochester

• Measurement of health outcomes for economic and burden of disease studies
  
  
• Setting priorities for resource allocation decisions in public health and medical care settings
  
  
• Citizen deliberative methods in health policy
  
  
• Patient activation
  

Journal Articles

• Lu WH, Deen D, Rothstein D, Santana L, Gold MR. Activating community health center patients in developing question formulation skills: A qualitative study. Health Education and Behavior (epub ahead of print, May, 2011)
  
• Deen D, Lu WH, Rothstein D, Santana L, Gold MR. Asking Questions: The effect of a brief intervention on patient activation in community health centers. Patient Education and Counseling 84;2:257-60
• Lubetkin EI, Lu WH, Gold MR. Levels and correlates of patient activation in health center settings: Building strategies for improving health outcomes. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 21;3:796-808, 2010
• Lipscomb J, Drummond M, Fryback DG, Gold M, Revicki D. Retaining, and enhancing, the QALY. Value in Health 12;1:S18-28 2009
• Drummond M, Brixner D, Gold M, Kind P, McGuire A, Nord E. Towards a consensus on the QALY. Value in Health 12;1:S1-5 2009
• Bryan S, Sofaer S, Siegelberg T, Gold MR. Has the time come for cost-effectiveness in U.S. health care? Health Economics, Policy and the Law. Feb 9 2009. Epub ahead of print
• Neumann PJ, Palmer JA, Daniels N, Quigley K, Gold MR, Chao S. Integrating cost-effectiveness analysis into US healthcare policy. Am J of Managed Care. Am J of Managed Care. 14:185-188, 2008
• Gold MR, Sofaer S, Siegelberg T. Medicare and cost-effectiveness analysis: Time to ask the taxpayers. Health Affairs 26;5:1399-1406, 2007
• Gold MR, Franks P, Siegelberg T, Sofaer S. Does providing cost-effectiveness information change coverage priorities for citizens acting as social decision makers. Health Policy83:65-72, 2007
• Gold MR and S Bryan. A response to Birch and Gafni – Some reasons to be cheerful about NICE. Health Economics, Policy and the Law 2:209-216, 2007
• Lubetkin EI, Jia H, Franks P, Gold MR. Relationship among sociodemographic factors, clinical conditions, and health-related quality of life: Examining the EQ-5D in the U.S. general population. Quality of Life Research 14:2187-2196, 2005
• Muennig P, Franks P, Jia H, Lubetkin E, Gold MR. The income-associated burden of disease in the United States. Soc Sci Med 61:2018-26, 2005
• Franks P, Muennig P, Gold MR. Is expanding Medicare coverage cost-effective? BMC Health Services Research 5:23, 2005
• Gold MR. Tea, biscuits and health care prioritizing. Health Affairs 24;1:234-239, 2005 
• Muennig P, Franks P, Gold MR. Is health insurance cost-effective? Am J Prev Med 28;1:59-64, 2005 
• Franks P, Lubetkin El, Gold MR, Jia H, Tancredi D. Mapping the SF-12 to the EuroQol EQ-5D Index in a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample. Med Decis Making – 24:247-54, 2004 
• Jia H, Muennig P, Lubetkin El, Gold MR. Predicting geographical variations in behavioral risk factors: an analysis of physical and mental healthy days. J Epidemiol Community  Health 58:150-55, 2004
• Devlin N, Parkins D, Gold M. WHO evaluates NICE. BMJ 327:1061-2, 2003
• Franks P, Lubetkin EI, Gold MR, Tancredi D. Mapping the SF-12 to preference-based instruments: Convergent validity in a low-income, minority population. Med Care 41:1277-83, 2003
• Lubetkin EI, Gold MR. Areas of decrement in health-related quality of life: comparing the SF-12, EQ-5D and HUI 3. Qual Life Res 12:1059-67, 2003
• Franks P, Gold MR, Fiscella K. Sociodemographics, self-related health, and mortality in the US. Soc Sci Med 56: 2505-14, 2003
• Lubetkin EI, Jia H, Gold MR. Depression, anxiety, and associated health status in low-income Chinese patients. Am J Prev Med 24:354-60, 2003
• Lubetkin EI, Sofaer S, Gold MR et al. Performance measurement to maximize individual and population health: is that where we are going? Am J Public Health 93:406-411, 2003
• Lubetkin EI, Jia H, Gold MR. Use of the SF-36 in low-income Chinese American primary care patients. Med Care 41:447-457, 2003
• Gold MR and P Muennig. Measure dependent variation in burden of disease estimates. Implications for policy. Med Care 40;260-266, 2002
• Lubetkin El and MR Gold. Assessing health-related quality of life at a community health center by self-administered surveys. J National Med Assoc 94:327-335, 2002 
• Gold MR, Stevenson D, Fryback DG. HALYs and QALYs and DALYs, Oh My: Similarities and differences in summary measures of population health. Annu. Rev. Public Health 23:115-34, 2002
• Almeida C, Braveman P, Gold MR, et al. World Health Report 2000 - Methodologic concerns and recommendations concerning policy consequences. Lancet 357:1692-97, 2001
• Muennig P and MR Gold. Using the Years of Healthy Life measure to calculate QALYs. Am J Prev Med 20:35-39, 2001
• Ubel PA, Nord E, Gold MR, Menzel P, Pinto JL, Richardson J. Improving value measurement in cost-effectiveness analysis. Med Care 38:892-901, 2000
• Fiscella K, Franks P, Gold MR, Clancy CM. Inequality in quality: Assessing socioeconomic, racial and ethnic disparities in health care. JAMA; 283:2579-2584, 2000
• Menzel P, Gold MR, Nord E, Prades JP, Richardson J, Ubel P. Toward a broader view of values in cost-effectiveness analysis of health. Hastings Center Report May-June:2-10, 1999
• Gold MR, Franks P, McCoy KI, Fryback DG. Toward consistency in cost-utility analyses:Using National measures to create condition-specific values. Med Care 36:778-792, 1998
• Gold MR. Standardizing cost-effectiveness analyses: the Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine. Acad. Radiol. 1998:Suppl. 2:S:351-354, 1998

Books, Chapters, Monographs

• Institute of Medicine. For the Public’s Health: Revitalizing Law and Policy to Meet New Challenges. Washington, DC. The National Academies Press, 2011
  
• Institute of Medicine. For the Public’s Health: The Role of Measurement in Action and Accountability. Washington, DC. The National Academies Press, 2011
• Gold MR. “Engaging the American public in setting health care priorities” in Patients, the Public and Priorities in Health Care. Littlejohns P and M Rawlins (Ed). Radcliffe Publishing, Oxford, England. 2009
• Gold MR, Bryan S, Ginsburg M, Sofaer S. Value Proposition: The Role of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Coverage Policy. California Health Care Foundation Policy Brief. November, 2009.
• Muennig P, Franks P, Gold MR, Lubetkin E, Jia H. “The income-associated burden of disease in the U.S.” in Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures. Springer, U.K. in press, 2008
• Gold MR. “Tea, biscuits and health care prioritizing” in Narrative Matters (Ed) Mullan F, Ficklen E, Rubin K. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, 2006
• Miller W, Robinson LA, Lawrence RS (Ed) Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, 2006
• Nass SJ, Henderson C, Lashof JC (Ed) Mammography and Beyond: Developing Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer. Washington, D.C.: Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, 2001
• Field MJ, Lawrence RS, Zwanziger L (Ed) Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services. Washington D.C.: Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, 2000
• Field, MJ, Gold MR. (Ed) Summarizing Population Health: Directions for the Development and Application of Population Metrics. Washington D.C.: Institute of Medicine. National Academy Press, 1998

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