Margaret O'Bryon

Margaret O'Bryon is president and CEO of the Consumer Health Foundation. The foundation supports local grassroots and community-based organizations in the metropolitan Washington DC area that work to improve these communities’ overall health and to assure access to equitable, quality health care. CHF is also committed to the larger work around social justice, racial equity, economic, and policy issues that impact health. 

Prior to joining CHF, Ms. O'Bryon worked for Prince Charitable Trusts. She also served as the Associate Director of the Institute for Urban Development Research at the George Washington University. Her early professional career was spent working for the U.S. House of Representatives.
 
Ms. O'Bryon was named a Kellogg National Fellow. She currently serves in a leadership capacity in a number of organizations, including the boards of Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, the Nonprofit Roundtable, and the DC Local Initiatives Support Corporation.  She chairs the national advisory committee of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Program.  Previously she served as chair of the national board of Grantmakers in Health. She has degrees from Hamilton/Kirkland College (BA) and George Washington University (Masters in Urban and Regional Planning).  
 
August 2011