Quality in Universal Health Care

Lisa Hirschhorn

Co-Chair

Dr Lisa Hirschhorn MD, MPH is Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School. Dr Hirschhorn started her career as Director of HIV Services at Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury and Senior Clinical Advisor for HIV at JSI Research and Training, moving to become Director of Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality for Partners in Health and, most recently, Director of Implementation and Improvement Science at Ariadne Labs. Trained in primary care, infectious disease and public health, she is a leader in implementation and improvement science focused on evaluating and spreading effective approaches to improve the quality, equity and delivery of services in the USA and low and middle-income countries (LMICs). She is deeply involved in capacity building in the fields of quality improvement, implementation science and monitoring and evaluation.

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M. Rashad Massoud

Co-Chair

Dr Massoud is a physician executive and public health specialist internationally recognized for his leadership in global health care improvement. He is Chief Medical and Quality Officer/ Senior Vice President for University Research Co. LLC, heading its Quality and Performance Institute. He directs the USAID Applying Science to Strengthen and Improve Systems (ASSIST) project, which is operating simultaneously in 30 countries applying improvement science to deliver better results in global health priority areas. In previous work, he was Senior Vice President at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Cambridge, MA. In voluntary capacities he is the President-Elect for the Alumni Association of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is a member of the Palestinian Health Policy Forum. In July 2016, he chaired the Salzburg Global Seminar: 'How do We Learn about Improving Health Care'.

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Jannah Wigle

Coordinator

Jannah Wigle is a PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, Canada, completing her doctorate in Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, and the collaborative program in global health. Her research is exploring youth participation in reproductive health policymaking in Malawi. Jannah has worked in the design, implementation and evaluation of reproductive, maternal and newborn health programs that focus on improving quality of care and strengthening health systems in sub-Saharan Africa and other LMICs.

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