Marge Ginsburg, B.S.N., M.P.H.
Executive Director
Center for Healthcare Decisions

 Marge is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Healthcare Decisions (CHCD), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization in California that seeks the public’s perspective on complex health policy issues. Through deliberative small-group processes, the lay public addresses difficult issues from the vantage point "what should we do as a society."

Currently she is working with American Institutes for Research on an AHRQ-funded project, conducting national discussion groups on the use of medical evidence.  She recently completed a project for California’s health benefit exchange on a fair model for cost-sharing and is now planning a state project to consider seniors’ priorities in addressing the cost of Medicare. Last year, CHCD began its Common Cents initiative, exploring ways that the public will support for efficient use of communal healthcare resources.

In 2011, she was one of 18 members of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Essential Health Benefits.  She is a member of NCQA’s Committee on Performance Measurement and other committees to improve health care in California.

Marge received her nursing degree from the University of Maryland and a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley.