Margo Edmunds is an American health policy researcher, strategy consultant, educator, and writer who began her clinical career in disease management at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
[1] Formerly Vice President with The Lewin Group,[clarification needed] Edmunds has held senior positions at the University of California, San Francisco; Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies; Children's Defense Fund (CDF); and American Institutes for Research.
In 2000, she and her team at CDF released All Over the Map, a report on progress implementing the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
The report was used as a briefing and reference document for members of Congress and the Gore presidential campaign, and was widely covered by the media,[citation needed] including The New York Times.
[5] Edmunds received a Ph.D. in human development at The Pennsylvania State University, where she studied systems theory, policy analysis, and clinical psychology.