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Anne K. Gauthier is assistant vice president of The Commonwealth Fund and deputy director of the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System, based in Washington, D.C. The Commission aims to move the U.S. toward a health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, with particular focus on the most vulnerable due to income, race/ethnicity, health, or age. She is responsible for overseeing all Commission activities, including meetings and site visits; leading members in identifying policy changes and recommending concrete steps that would facilitate movement towards a high-performance system in the U.S.; preparing a series of issue briefs and other publications on key strategies for achieving a high-performance health system; and presenting Commission-related work to appropriate public and private officials and the media. Ms. Gauthier also leads the Fund's State Innovations program, which aims to improve state and national health system performance by supporting, stimulating, and spreading integrated, state-level strategies for expanding access to care and promoting high-quality, efficient care.

Prior to joining the Fund in May 2005, Ms. Gauthier was vice president of AcademyHealth where she served as program director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization initiative, a program that bridges the health policy and health services research communities through grantmaking, convening, and the distribution of information. She was also senior advisor for the Foundation's State Coverage Initiative—which works with states to plan, execute, and maintain insurance expansions—as well as a co-project director for a Fund project on administrative simplification in health care. Before joining AcademyHealth in 1989, Ms. Gauthier was senior researcher for the National Leadership Commission on Health Care, a private commission charged with developing a system-wide public/private strategy to control rising costs, improve the quality, appropriateness, and efficiency of care, and ensure universal access to a basic level of services. She held a position in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1980 to 1986. Ms. Gauthier has an A.B. in molecular biology from Princeton University and an M.S. in health administration from the University of Massachusetts School of Public Health.