Elizabeth Bradley | |
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11thPresident of Vassar College | |
Assumed office July 1, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Catharine Hill |
Personal details | |
Born | Elizabeth Howe Bradley 1962 (age 60–61) |
Alma mater | Harvard University ( AB ) University of Chicago ( MBA ) Yale University ( PhD ) |
Profession | Professor |
Elizabeth Howe Bradley (born 1962) is the eleventh President of Vassar College,a role she assumed on July 1,2017. Bradley also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Science,Technology,and Society.
Previously Bradley was Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy and Founder and Faculty Director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale University. She was also the Head of Branford College at Yale University. In 2018,she was named a member of the Council of Foreign Affairs and elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Bradley has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and has co-authored three books including The American Healthcare Paradox:Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less. [1] [2]
Bradley graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. She received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1986 specializing in Health Administration and Organizational Behavior. [1] She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from Yale University with a concentration in health policy and health economics. [3]
Bradley was a hospital administrator at Massachusetts General Hospital before leading the Health Management Program at the Yale School of Public Health,Health Policy and Administration. [3] [4] She coordinated health management teaching efforts in joint programs for business and medical students at Yale University. [5]
Bradley's research focused on strengthening health care systems around the globe,including within the US,UK,China and several countries in Africa. [6] Domestically,she has contributed to several projects including improving quality of cardiovascular care within hospital settings,understanding the relationship between state level social service spending and health outcomes,and improving the transition from acute to hospice and palliative care. [4] [7]
Bradley has published more than 335 peer-reviewed papers, [1] some of which include:
Bradley has led health system strengthening projects in international settings including China,Ethiopia,India,Liberia,Rwanda,South Africa and the United Kingdom[ citation needed ] and with Vassar is implementing a liberal arts curriculum in collaboration with the University of Global Health Equity and Partners in Health in Rwanda.
Bradley first arrived in Ethiopia in 2006 as part of an international coalition that included the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI),the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI),Harvard University,and others. [15] Dr. Tedros Adhanom,then the Minister of Health,asked Bradley to advise 90 hospital CEOs and senior managers as part of the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative. [16] [17] Later,Bradley served as the principal investigator for the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative,a program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to improve the functionality and quality of government hospitals in Ethiopia. [18] She also served as the principal investigator for a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,Developing the Long-Term Capability of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program Platform. [19] Bradley’s efforts focused on healthcare leadership capacity and management systems to advance Ethiopia’s healthcare reform. [20]
Bradley also assisted in establishing the Rwanda Human Resources for Health Program, [21] which was recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative for its innovativeness. She was also the recipient of Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation grant that developed a framework of diffusion,dissemination,and widespread take up of health innovations. [22]
In the United Kingdom,Bradley and National Health Service (NHS) partners established an executive leadership training program for mid-career professionals working in health and social care in the NHS. The Yale Health and Social Care Strategic Leadership Program integrates traditional management and leadership training,professional development,and project-based learning to equip executives with the skills needed to be effective contributors to the transformational change required by the NHS. [23]
Bradley was appointed as the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy in January 2016. [24] The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy prepares students to develop strategic thinking and leadership capacity across multiple sectors.
The concept of grand strategy,which is the interdisciplinary study of achieving large ends with limited means,has expanded to include practitioners in the field. The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy sponsors symposia at Yale University focused on leadership and strategic problem solving. [25]
One such forum,The Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact,aims to increase the knowledge and skills of African women in senior positions within their nations’governments,and amplify women’s effectiveness and influence by building a leadership network across Africa. [26]
Bradley has been quoted in,or served as a contributor for,numerous publications on issues facing the liberal arts and higher education. She has been featured in:
Medical social work is a sub-discipline of social work. Medical social workers typically work in a hospital,outpatient clinic,community health agency,skilled nursing facility,long-term care facility or hospice. They work with patients and their families in need of psychosocial help. Medical social workers assess the psychosocial functioning of patients and families and intervene as necessary. The role of a medical social worker is to "restore balance in an individual’s personal,family and social life,in order to help that person maintain or recover his/her health and strengthen his/her ability to adapt and reintegrate into society." Interventions may include connecting patients and families to necessary resources and support in the community such as preventive care;providing psychotherapy,supportive counseling,or grief counseling;or helping a patient to expand and strengthen their network of social supports. Professionals in this field typically work with other disciplines such as medicine,nursing,physical,occupational,speech and recreational therapy.
Palliative care is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious,complex,and often terminal illnesses. Within the published literature,many definitions of palliative care exist. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes palliative care as "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness,through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems,physical,psychosocial,and spiritual." In the past,palliative care was a disease specific approach,but today the WHO takes a broader approach,that the principles of palliative care should be applied as early as possible to any chronic and ultimately fatal illness.
Health promotion is,as stated in the 1986 World Health Organization (WHO) Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion,the "process of enabling people to increase control over,and to improve their health."
End-of-life care refers to health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death. End-of-life care can be provided in the hours,days,or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs,physical comfort,spiritual needs,and practical tasks.
Health administration,healthcare administration,healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership,management,and administration of public health systems,health care systems,hospitals,and hospital networks in all the primary,secondary,and tertiary sectors.
Florence Wald was an American nurse,former Dean of Yale School of Nursing,and largely credited as "the mother of the American hospice movement". She led the founding of Connecticut Hospice,the first hospice program in the United States. Late in life,Wald became interested in the provision of hospice care within prisons. In 1998,Wald was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
As literacy and socioeconomic status improves in Ethiopia,the demand for quality service is also increasing. Besides,changes in the demographic trends,epidemiology and mushrooming urbanization require more comprehensive services covering a wide range and quality of curative,promotive and preventive services.
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals,families,and communities so they may attain,maintain,or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care,training,and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Nurses comprise the largest component of most healthcare environments;but there is evidence of international shortages of qualified nurses. Nurses collaborate with other healthcare providers such as physicians,nurse practitioners,physical therapists,and psychologists. Unlike nurse practitioners,nurses typically cannot prescribe medications in the US. Nurse practitioners are nurses with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. They practice independently in a variety of settings in more than half of the United States. Since the postwar period,nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and specialized credentials,and many of the traditional regulations and provider roles are changing.
Hospice care is a type of health care that focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. Hospice care prioritizes comfort and quality of life by reducing pain and suffering. Hospice care provides an alternative to therapies focused on life-prolonging measures that may be arduous,likely to cause more symptoms,or are not aligned with a person's goals.
Diane E. Meier,an American geriatrician and palliative care specialist. In 1999,Dr. Meier founded the Center to Advance Palliative Care,a national organization devoted to increasing access to quality health care in the United States for people living with serious illness. She continues to serve as CAPC's Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor. Meier is also Vice-Chair for Public Policy,Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and Catherine Gaisman Professor of Medical Ethics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Meier was founder and Director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine in New York City from 1997 to 2011.
Sameh El-Saharty is an Egyptian medical doctor and global health expert,who works as Lead Health Policy Advisor at The World Bank in Washington,DC. Dr. El-Saharty joined the Bank in 1998 and was the first Egyptian to work in the health,population,and nutrition (HNP) sector at the World Bank since its establishment. During this period,he was responsible for leading the health policy dialog and health strategy development for client countries as well as managing several programs and projects amounting to more than $3.5 billion in more than 25 countries in three world regions. Before his current position,he was the Program Leader for Human Development,responsible for the HNP,education,social protection and labor markets in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. He also held the position of Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Health at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C.
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Kesetebirhan (Kesete) Admasu is an Ethiopian physician who was the Minister of Health of Ethiopia between November 2012 and 2016. It was reported that he left the government after declining a new non-health cabinet ministerial portfolio during a cabinet reshuffle in November 2016. He was appointed as Minister of Health in October 2012 after serving as State Minister in charge of Health Programs from 2010 to October 2012. He is known for his critical role in implementing the health sector reform of the country when he served as Director General,Health Promotion and Disease Prevention between 2007 and 2010. Dr Kesete has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in February-2017.
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