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Karen Davis (economist)

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Karen Davis (born 1942) is a former president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues.{{Cite web |title=Save Money, Save the Health Care Law |url=https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/11/14/16-ways-to-cut-the-deficit/save-money-save-the-health-care-law |access-date=2023-03-03 |website=www.nytimes.com |language=en}}

Davis is an economist, with a career in public policy and research. Before joining The Commonwealth Fund, she served as chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where she also held an appointment as professor of economics. She served as deputy assistant secretary for health policy in the Department of Health and Human Services from 1977 to 1980, becoming the first woman to head a U.S. public health service agency.100 Most Influential People in Healthcare, Modern Healthcare, August 22, 2011, http://www.modernhealthcare.com (subscription required)Stephanie Bouchard, Women in Healthcare: Karen Davis, Healthcare Finance News, March 26, 2012, http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/women-healthcare-karen-davis

Prior to her government career, Davis was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., a visiting lecturer at Harvard University, and an assistant professor of economics at Rice University. A native of Oklahoma, she received her Ph.D. in economics from Rice UniversityMichael Romano, Battling the system: Commonwealth Fund chief fights for quality, transparency, Modern Healthcare March 28, 2005, http://www.modernhealthcare.com (subscription required)

She serves on the board of directors of the Geisinger Health System.Geisinger Health System Foundation Board of Directors, 2010, http://www.geisingerfoundation.org/pdf/ar_09_10.pdf Davis was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1975, has served two terms on the IOM governing council (1986–1990 and 1997–2000), and was a member of the IOM Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Benefits, Payment and Performance Improvement Programs and the IOM Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems.News from the National Academies, Nov. 19, 2002, http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=10565 She is a past president of the AcademyHealth (formerly AHSRHP) and an AcademyHealth distinguished fellow.AcademyHealth, http://www.academyhealth.org/Events/content.cfm?ItemNumber=935 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419231248/http://www.academyhealth.org/Events/content.cfm?ItemNumber=935 |date=2015-04-19 }} She is a member of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured{{cite web |url=http://www.kff.org/about/davis.cfm |title=Biography of Karen Davis, Ph.D. - Kaiser Family Foundation |publisher=Kff.org |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507085953/http://www.kff.org/about/davis.cfm |archive-date=2012-05-07 |url-status=dead }} and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web |url=http://www.amacad.org/members/alphaList.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527025239/http://www.amacad.org/members/alphaList.pdf |archive-date=2016-05-27 |url-status=dead }} Davis is a former member of the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) National Advisory Committee{{cite web|url=http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/jun00/0600RA23.htm |title=Research Activities, June 2000: Announcements: National Advisory Council member receives AUPHA award |publisher=Archive.ahrq.gov |date= |accessdate=2012-07-04}} and the Panel of Health Advisors for the Congressional Budget Office.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbo.gov/publication/24885 |title=CBO | Panel of Health Advisers |publisher=Cbo.gov |date=2009-04-20 |accessdate=2012-07-04}} Davis is also one of the best female backgammon players in the world, has served on the United States Backgammon Federation board of directors and was elected to the USBGF Hall of Fame in 2020.

Awards (selected)

  • Distinguished Alumna Award, Rice University, 1991[https://web.archive.org/web/20040819220327/http://alumni.rice.edu/awards_distalumni.html Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients, Rice University]
  • Baxter-Allegiance Foundation Prize for Health Services Research, 2000
  • Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Johns Hopkins University, 2001The Gazette Online: The Newspaper of the Johns Hopkins University, May 21, 2002 http://www.jhu.edu/gazette/2001/may2101/21confer.html
  • Distinguished Investigator Award, AcademyHealth, 2006Distinguished Investigator Award, AcademyHealth, http://www.academyhealth.org/about/content.cfm?ItemNumber=946&navItemNumber=2342 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505024705/http://www.academyhealth.org/About/content.cfm?ItemNumber=946&navItemNumber=2342 |date=2012-05-05 }}
  • Institute of Medicine's Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, 2011Adam Yarmolinsky Award Recipients, {{cite web|url=http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/MemberAwards/YarmolinskyAwardRecipients.aspx |title=Adam Yarmolinsky Award Recipients - Institute of Medicine |accessdate=2012-05-04 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613232427/http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/MemberAwards/YarmolinskyAwardRecipients.aspx |archivedate=2010-06-13 }}
  • Picker Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient Centered Care, 20062011 Picker Awards for Excellence, http://pickerinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Picker-Awards-2011.pdf{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, 2011
  • Honorary Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives, 2012American College of Healthcare Executives News Release, January 19, 2012, http://www.ache.org/Pubs/Releases/2012/karen-davis-honorary-fellow.cfm
  • 2012 Distinguished Service Award, American Hospital AssociationAHA 2012 Distinguished Service Award - Karen Davis, YouTube, uploaded May 7, 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy5CZ5OrRl0, or http://www.aha.org/advocacy-issues/annual-meeting/12-webcasts.shtml{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 2013 Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) TRUST Award, American Hospital Association Johns Hopkins Faculty Directory page for Karen Davis, http://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/5331/karen-davis{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Books

  • With Gerard F. Anderson, Diana Rowland, and Earl P. Steinberg: Health Care Cost Containment, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1990.
  • With Diane Rowland: Medicare Policy: New Directions for Health and Long-Term Care, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1986.
  • With Cathy Schoen: Health and the War on Poverty: A Ten Year Appraisal, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1978.
  • National Health Insurance: Benefits, Costs, and Consequences, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1975.
  • With Richard Foster: Community Hospitals: Inflation in the Pre-Medicare Period, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, 1972.
  • Net Income of Hospitals, 1961–1969, Social Security Administration, Washington, DC, 1970.

Selected journal articles and congressional testimony

  • S. Guterman, K. Davis, K. Stremikis, and H. Drake, "Innovation in Medicare and Medicaid Will Be Central to Health Reform's Success," Health Affairs, June 2010 29(6):1188–93., http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/6/1188.abstract?sid=6a3df8a4-b35f-47da-b4bb-b550b06ad3ec
  • C. Schoen, K. Davis, and S. R. Collins, "Building Blocks for Reform: Achieving Universal Coverage with Private and Public Group Health Insurance," Health Affairs, May/June 2008 27(3):646–57, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/27/3/646.abstract?sid=77092dee-668d-45ac-bb44-1ebf44e23292
  • K. Davis, Toward a High Performance Health System: New Commonwealth Fund Commission, Health Affairs, September/October 2005, 24 (5): 1356–60, http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/5/1356.abstract?sid=b51a2ac0-9532-4c8e-a8a7-d6622d67bbee
  • K. Davis and A. T. Huang, Learning From Taiwan: Experience with Universal Health Insurance, Annals of Internal Medicine, Feb. 19, 2008 148(4):313–14, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/1103_Davis_learning_from_Taiwan.pdf?section=4039{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • K. Davis, Changing Course: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage, 2000–2008, Hearing on "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage: Assessing Key Consensus Indicators of Family Well-Being in 2008," Joint Economic Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, September 10, 2009, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Testimonies/2009/Sep/Changing-Course-Trends-in-Health-Insurance-Coverage-2000-2008.aspx{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • E. S. Fisher, D. M. Berwick, K. Davis, “Achieving Health Care Reform — How Physicians Can Help,” New England Journal of Medicine, published online May 20, 2009, http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0903923
  • K. Davis, "Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs — Learning from International Experience," New England Journal of Medicine, Oct. 23, 2008 359(17):1751–55, http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0805261
  • K. Davis and C. Schoen, Using What Works: Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program as a Base for Health Care Reform, Invited Testimony, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health Hearing on "America's Need for Health Reform," September 18, 2008, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Testimonies/2008/Sep/Testimony--Using-What-Works--Medicare--Medicaid--and-the-State-Childrens-Health-Insurance-Program-as.aspx{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

References

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External links

  • [http://National%20Journal%20Expert%20Blogs%20Contributor%20Profile http://healthcare.nationaljournal.com/contributors/karen-davis.php]{{Dead link|date=February 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Karen_Davis Profile] at SourceWatch
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