Dr. Lauren LeRoy is a strategic advisor to foundations and nonprofit organizations focused on health and policy issues.

Previously, LeRoy was President and CEO of Grantmakers in Health; Executive Director of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Executive Director of the Physician Payment Review Commission; Associate Director of The Commonwealth Fund Commission on Elderly People Living Alone; Assistant Director of the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies and Director of its Washington, D.C. office; and health analyst in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

LeRoy is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and a fellow of the National Academies. She is a member of the Dean’s Policy Advisory Council at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and is a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. She holds a PhD in Social Policy Planning from UC Berkeley.