Since 1991, Georgia Health Decisions, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, has been working across Georgia to give public voice to the health values and viewpoints of citizens. Distinct from other grassroots groups that address health issues from advocacy and consumer oriented perspectives, Georgia Health Decisions attempts to elicit a self-consciously "civic" or citizenship outlook on health issues.

This outlook incorporates a broad range of value concerns - including individual rights, personal responsibilities, and social interests - and it attempts to reconcile or balance these values when they conflict. Fostering better informed, more thoughtful, and more inclusive dialogue at the community and state levels is the goal of Georgia Health Decisions.

Georgia Health Decisions seeks to educate Georgians about health care issues, stimulate discussions that activate a sense of community responsibility for health care, and listen to citizens in order to communicate their voices to policy makers. Georgia Health Decisions draws on a wide range of methodologies to accomplish these goals. Approaches to creating public dialogue include community forums, workshops and regional conferences. Educational elements range from traditional distribution of printed, audio and video materials to speakers' bureaus and full-scale media campaigns. Methodologies of a more structured research approach include surveys, focus groups and citizen panels.

Through the vast work of a statewide network of volunteers, Georgia Health Decisions knows that our citizens wrestle with difficult health choices in their own lives and welcome the opportunity to address public policy on health care. Georgians express deeply-rooted moral beliefs and tell a complex story about the health care system Georgia deserves and should strive to attain.

Since 1995, Georgia Health Decisions has worked closely with the Georgia Health Policy Center due to their shared interest in providing unbiased information for making policy decisions.  The two organizations have worked on numerous projects together, and in 2004 entered into a formal relationship.  Georgia Health Decisions is currently housed within the Georgia Health Policy Center, although it remains a separate organization with an independent Board of Trustees.