Margo Edmunds

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Margo Edmunds is a health policy researcher, educator, writer, and strategy consultant with a clinical background in disease management. She has been recognized as an online thought leader by the American Medical Informatics Association and Pew Internet Project, is active with The Continua Health Alliance, and advises industry, foundations, associations, and policymakers on health information exchange.

Currently a Vice President with The Lewin Group, Edmunds has held senior positions at the University of California, San Francisco; Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies; Children’s Defense Fund (CDF); and American Institutes for Research. At the IOM, she directed studies on health insurance and access to care and provided testimony on children’s health insurance to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. In 2000, Edmunds and her team at CDF released "All Over the Map," a report on progress implementing the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The report was used as a briefing and reference document for members of Congress and the Gore presidential campaign, and was widely covered by the media, including The New York Times.

Edmunds is a proponent of information and communications technology adoption in health and health care. She serves as a media source on health information technology and is a frequent presenter at national conferences. In 2000, she co-founded MediaVision USA, a strategic communications firm, with Charles Fulwood, the former director of communications at CDF, NRDC, and Amnesty International USA.

Edmunds taught health policy analysis and communications at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health from 1999 to 2006 and currently teaches at the Johns Hopkins Communications Program. She is seen as an innovator and strategist who builds collaborations across sectors to implement integrated solutions to real-time policy problems, including health insurance, emergency preparedness, environmental health, and multicultural disease management.

Edmunds earned a PhD in human development at The Pennsylvania State University, where she studied systems theory, program evaluation, and clinical psychology. She completed clinical training at the Behavioral Medicine and Biofeedback Clinic at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a Fellow and former member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She currently chairs the Health IT Interest Group for AcademyHealth and is a member of the Public Policy Committee and Public Health Informatics Workgroup of the American Medical Informatics Association.

References

AMIA. Thought Leaders Online, October 2005. [1]

Pew Internet Project and Elon College. Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast. 2004 Experts Survey. [2]

Edmunds M, Frank RG, et al. (Eds.) (1997). Managing Managed Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. [3]

Edmunds M and Coye MJ. (1998) America’s Children: Health Insurance and Access to Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. [4]

Edmunds M and Coye MJ. (1998) Systems of Accountability: Implementing Children’s Health Insurance Programs. Washington, DC National Academy Press. [5]

Edmunds M, Teitelbaum M, Gleason C. (2000). "All Over the Map: A Progress Report on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program." Washington, DC: Children’s Defense Fund. [6]

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Web-Site Content Helps Policymakers Implement the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Grant report, 2004. [7]

Steinhauer, Jennifer. States Prove Unpredictable in Aiding Uninsured Children. The New York Times, September 28, 2000. [8]

Johns Hopkins Communication in Contemporary Society Program, Washington, DC. [9]

Edmunds M and Chambers S. (1990). Behavioral Management of Neurologically-involved Patients. Topics in Neurology, Postgraduate Advances in Physical Therapy. Alexandria, VA: American Physical Therapy Association.

Edmunds M and Fulwood C. (2002). Strategic Communications in Oral Health: Influencing Public and Professional Opinions and Actions. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 2(2Supp), 180-184.

Edmunds M. (2002). Chemical Terrorism. Washington, DC: Trust for America’s Health. [10]