Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a free-market public policy research organization founded in 1995 to promote education on health and tax policy issues. She speaks and writes extensively, focusing on incentives to promote a more competitive, consumer-driven marketplace in the health sector.

She also is founder and facilitator of the Health Policy Consensus Group, which serves as a forum for analysts from market-oriented think tanks around the country to analyze and develop health policy recommendations.

Grace-Marie is the editor of Empowering Health Care Consumers through Tax Reform, published by the University of Michigan Press. The book describes how tax reform can lead to a better functioning market in the health sector.
In 1995-96, Grace-Marie served as executive director of the 14-member National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform. From 1996-97, she was a vice president at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

For 12 years, Grace-Marie was president of Arnett & Co., a health policy analysis and communications firm in Washington, D.C. Previously, she worked as a news reporter, where she won numerous-awards for her work, as well as a radio correspondent, association director, presidential campaign adviser, and U.S. Senate press secretary.