Biography

McGlynn oversees strategic development, external dissemination, and communications of the results of the RAND Health research portfolio. She is an internationally known expert on methods for assessing and reporting on the quality and efficiency of health care delivery at the physician, medical group, hospital, health plan, regional, and national level. She is coleading RAND Health's COMPARE initiative, which has developed a comprehensive framework and methods for evaluating a wide range of health policy proposals being considered at the federal and state level as well as by the private sector. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on a variety of national advisory committees. She is the vice chair of the board of AcademyHealth, the professional association for health services researchers. She is the vice chair of the board of Providence-Little Company of Mary Hospital Service Area in Southern California. She serves on the editorial boards for Health Services Research and Milbank Quarterly and is a reviewer for many leading journals.