Marsha Gold (Sc.D., Health Services/Evaluation Research, Harvard School of Public Health) is a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy Research.  She is a nationally known expert on health care delivery and financing, especially in managed care and public programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Her expertise covers trends in the organization and financing of medical care and its implications for access to care.

Current projects include the Medicare Advantage Monitoring Program that has been tracking the use of private plans in Medicare, studies of physician participation and access in Medicare an evaluation of a major foundation funded initiative to enhance the economic security of American workers, and several studies that aim to synthesize or evaluate efforts to improve health care quality and reduce racial and ethnic disparities.  She also has focused on synthesizing and translating data to better support health policy development.  Her work has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, and the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockefeller Foundation after the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Gold publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals, sits on a number of expert and technical panels, and serves as an expert resource for policymakers, other researchers, and the media. She is on the editorial board of national journals, including Health Affairs and Health Services Research, and until December 2003 served on the Board of Directors of AcademyHealth. Before joining Mathematica in 1992, she was director of research and analysis for the Group Health Association of America.

Mathematica, a nonpartisan firm, conducts policy research and surveys for federal and state governments, as well as private clients.  The employee-owned company, with offices in Princeton, N.J., Washington, D.C., and Cambridge, MA.