Rose Marie Martinez, ScD National Academy of Medicine

Rose Marie Martinez is the Senior Board Director for the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice at the Institute of Medicine. The Board examines and develops strategies for health promotion and disease prevention across the lifespan, taking into account the multiple factors affecting health. The Board also addresses the science base for public health interventions and examines the capacity of the health system, particularly the public health infrastructure, to support disease prevention and health promotion activities, including the education and supply of health professionals necessary for carrying them out. Prior to joining the IOM, Dr. Martinez was a Senior Health Researcher at Mathematica Policy Research and a former Assistant Director for Health Financing and Policy with the U.S. General Accounting Office.