Gail Wilensky is an economist and a senior fellow at Project HOPE, an international health education foundation. She serves as a trustee of the Combined Benefits Fund of the United Mineworkers of America and the National Opinion Research Center, is on the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), and the Visiting Committee of Harvard Medical and Dental Schools. She recently served as president of the Defense Health Board and chaired their Health care Subcommittee, was a commissioner on the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, and co-chaired the Dept. of Defense Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care.