David Lansky

David Lansky, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and directs its efforts to improve the affordability and availability of high quality health care. Since 2008, he has led the coalition of 50 large employers and health care purchasers representing ten million Americans, including CalPERS, Wells Fargo, Intel, Safeway, Walmart, and Boeing.

A nationally-recognized expert in accountability, quality measurement and health IT, Lansky has served as the purchaser representative to numerous health care policymaking programs, including the Congressional Budget Office, the HHS Learning and Action Network, and the Healthcare Transformation Task Force.

From 2004 to 2008, Lansky was Senior Director of the Health Program at the Markle Foundation (NY), and from 1995 to 2004, he led the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT), a public-private venture developing quality measures and web-based tools to help consumers and purchasers assess the value of health care services and providers.

Before establishing FACCT, Lansky was a senior policy analyst for the Jackson Hole Group during the national health care reform debate of 1993-94. He led the Center for Outcomes Research and Education at the Providence Health System from 1988 to 1993.

He is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed papers on outcomes research and quality measurement and holds a PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley.