Susan Dentzer Biography

The largest health and healthcare foundation in the US with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Susan Dentzer is Senior Policy Adviser there. She collaborates closely with the foundation's executives in this capacity to carry out the organization's purpose of enhancing the healthcare and health of all Americans. She is a journalist and one of the nation's most esteemed thought leaders in the fields of health and health policy. She also provides on-air analysis of health-related topics for the PBS NewsHour. Dentzer is a fellow of the Hastings Center, a nonprofit organization devoted to bioethics and the public interest, as well as the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the board of directors of Research! America, an organization that promotes increased US investment in biomedical research, and a public trustee of the American Board of Medical Specialties, a non-profit organization that supervises 24 approved medical specialty boards in setting standards for board certification and maintenance of certification for the country's physicians. Dentzer frequently contributes as a guest commentator on NPR programs including "This American Life" and "The Diane Rehm Show." Dentzer served as the editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, the top journal for health policy in the country, from May 2008 to April 2013. During her tenure, the journal underwent significant change, going from a bimonthly academic publication to a highly readable, topical monthly journal and online publication with more than 120 million page views annually. Dentzer worked as an on-air journalist on health and health policy for the PBS NewsHour before joining the magazine, where she received multiple honors for her contributions (the unit was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Dentzer worked as the top economics correspondent, an economics columnist for US News & World Report, and a senior writer for Newsweek before joining the NewsHour. The Nieman Fellowship for Journalists at Harvard University and the US-Japan Leadership Program Fellowship offered by the Japan Society of New York is only two of the fellowships that Dentzer has won. In addition, Dentzer serves on the International Rescue Committee's Board of Overseers. This nonprofit organization helps displaced people and refugees all around the world. She is the head of the IRC board's Program Committee, which manages the organization's efforts to assist displaced people in around 25 different countries as well as resettle refugees in the United States. Dentzer has participated in IRC commissions looking at issues including domestic abuse of women in West Africa and, in 2007, the plight of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan. Susan Dentzer is a Dartmouth alumna and holds an honorary master of arts degree from the university. She served as head of the Dartmouth Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2004 and is currently a retired trustee. She has been a member of the Dartmouth Medical School Board of Overseers since 1993 and has received the Dartmouth Alumni Award, the Young Alumni Award, and the Dartmouth Presidential Medal for Achievement.

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