Karen Davis (born 1942) is a former president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues.
A native of Oklahoma, she received her Ph.D. in economics from Rice University[4] She serves on the board of directors of the Geisinger Health System.
[5] Davis was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1975, has served two terms on the IOM governing council (1986–1990 and 1997–2000), and was a member of the IOM Committee on Redesigning Health Insurance Benefits, Payment and Performance Improvement Programs and the IOM Committee on Rapid Advance Demonstration Projects: Health Care Finance and Delivery Systems.
[7] She is a member of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured[8] and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[9] Davis is a former member of the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) National Advisory Committee[10] and the Panel of Health Advisors for the Congressional Budget Office.