Grace Marie Turner President, Galen Institute
A not-for-profit health and tax policy research organization
Grace-Marie Turner
President, Galen Institute
Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that
she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform.
She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform
that transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients.
She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more
competitive, patient-centered marketplace in the health sector.
o Grace-Marie speaks extensively in the U.S. and abroad,
including at the London School of Economics, Oxford University,
and the Gregorian University at the Vatican in Rome.
o She testifies regularly before Congress and advises senior
government officials, governors, and state legislators on health
policy.
o Grace-Marie served for a three-year term as a member of the National Advisory Council
of Healthcare Research and Quality and served as a member of the Medicaid
Commission, charged with making recommendations to modernize and improve
Medicaid.
Grace-Marie is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group which serves as a
forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop
policy recommendations. She is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through
Tax Reform and produces a widely-read weekly electronic newsletter, Health Policy Matters.
She has been published in major newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and USA
Today, she has appeared on ABC’s 20/20 and on hundreds of radio and television programs in
the U.S. She also received the 2007 Outstanding Achievement Award for Promotion of
Consumer Driven Health Care from Consumer Health World.
In the mid-1990s, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the National Commission on
Economic Growth and Tax Reform. For 12 years, she was president of Arnett & Co., a health
policy analysis and communications firm. Her early career was in politics and journalism, where
she received numerous awards for her writings on politics and economics.
Officers/Trustees: Grace-Marie Turner, President • Cleta Mitchell, Esq., Vice President • Thomas C. Jackson, Secretary-Treasurer
P.O. Box 320010 • Alexandria, VA 22320 • Phone 703-299-8900 • Fax 703-299-0721 • www.galen.org
