Biography:

Physician and health services researcher. Professor of health policy and pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University. Focusing on quality of care, health status assessment, primary care evaluation, and equity in health. Her books, Primary Care: Concept, Evaluation, and Policy and Primary Care: Balancing Health Needs, Services, and Technology, are considered seminal. She has led projects to develop important methodological tools, including the Primary Care Assessment Tool, the CHIP tools (to assess adolescent and child health status), and the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups (ACGs) for assessment of diagnosed morbidity burdens.  She was a co-founder and first president of the International Society for Equity in Health. 

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