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Elizabeth Howe Bradley (born 1962) is the eleventh President of
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, 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
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. She was also the Head of
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at
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. In 2018, she was named a member of the Council of Foreign Affairs and elected to the
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. 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''.


Education and early career

Bradley graduated ''
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'' from
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in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. She received an MBA from the
University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
in 1986 specializing in
Health Administration 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 ...
and
Organizational Behavior Organizational behavior (OB) or organisational behaviour is the: "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself".Moorhead, G., & Griffin, R. W. (1995) ...
. She earned her Ph.D. in 1996 from Yale University with a concentration in
health policy Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".World Health Organization''Health Policy'' accessed 22 March 2011(Web archive)/ref> According to the ...
and
health economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in determining how to improv ...
. Bradley was a
hospital administrator 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 network ...
at
Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United Stat ...
before leading the Health Management Program at the
Yale School of Public Health The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and is one of the oldest public health masters programs in the United States. It is consistently rated among the best schools of public health in the cou ...
, Health Policy and Administration. She coordinated
health management 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 ...
teaching efforts in joint programs for business and medical students at Yale University.


Research and publications

Bradley's research focused on strengthening
health care systems Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...
around the globe, including within the US, UK, China and several countries in Africa. 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 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 ...
and
palliative care Palliative care (derived from the Latin root , or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. Wit ...
.


Articles and chapters

Bradley has published more than 335 peer-reviewed papers, some of which include: *Leveraging the Social Determinants of Health: What Works? *The Impact of Reported Hospice Preferred Practices on Hospital Utilization at the End of Life *Variation In Health Outcomes: The Role Of Spending On Social Services, Public Health, And Health Care, 2000–09 *Patterns of collaboration among health care and social service providers in communities with lower health care utilization and costs *Association between community social capital and hospital readmission rates * Management Matters: A Leverage Point for Health Systems Strengthening in Global Health *District-level health management and health system performance


Books

* ''Shortell and Kaluzny's Healthcare Management: Organization, Design and Behavior, 7th edition'' (Clifton Park, NY: Delmar, 2019). *''The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less'' (New York, NY: Perseus Book Group, 2013). *''Public and Private Responsibilities in Long Term Care'' (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).


International work

Bradley has led
health system strengthening Health systems strengthening (also health system strengthening, abbreviated HSS) is a term used in global health that roughly means to improve the health care system of a country. Within this general definition, it can mean increasing funding for h ...
projects in international settings including China, Ethiopia, India, Liberia, Rwanda, South Africa and the United Kingdom 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),
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, and others. 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. Later, Bradley served as the principal investigator for the Ethiopian Hospital Management Initiative, a program run by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgi ...
and the
President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief The United States President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is a United States governmental initiative to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and help save the lives of those suffering from the disease. Launched by U.S. President Geor ...
to improve the functionality and quality of government hospitals in Ethiopia. She also served as the principal investigator for a project funded by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was ...
, Developing the Long-Term Capability of Ethiopia’s Health Extension Program Platform. Bradley’s efforts focused on healthcare leadership capacity and management systems to advance Ethiopia’s healthcare reform. Bradley also assisted in establishing the Rwanda Human Resources for Health Program, which was recognized by the
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for its innovativeness. She was also the recipient of
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grant that developed a framework of diffusion, dissemination, and widespread take up of health innovations. In the United Kingdom, Bradley and
National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...
(NHS) partners established an executive leadership training program for mid-career professionals working in
health and social care Health and Social Care (often abbreviated to ''HSC'' or ''H&SC'') is a term that relates to services that are available from health and social care providers in the UK. This is a generic term used to refer to the whole of the healthcare provision ...
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.


Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy

Bradley was appointed as the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy in January 2016.Elizabeth H. Bradley Named the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy. YaleNews. 2015-07-06. http://news.yale.edu/2015/07/06/elizabeth-h-bradley-named-brady-johnson-professor-grand-strategy The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy prepares students to develop
strategic thinking Strategic thinking is a mental or thinking process applied by an individual in the context of achieving a goal or set of goals. As a cognitive activity, it produces thought. When applied in an organizational strategic management process, strate ...
and leadership capacity across multiple sectors.


Publications


''“Grand Strategy and Global Health: The Case of Ethiopia”''''“Achieving Large Ends with Limited Means: Grand Strategy in Global Health”''


Grand Strategy in the World

The concept of
grand strategy Grand strategy or high strategy is a state's strategy of how means can be used to advance and achieve national interests. Issues of grand strategy typically include the choice of primary versus secondary theaters in war, distribution of resource ...
, 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
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focused on leadership and strategic problem solving. 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.


Honors and recognition

*Invited Speaker, MacLean Lecture for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago Medical School, 2019 *Invited Distinguished Speaker Colloquium, Indiana University School of Public Health, 2019 *Invited Speaker, Cosmopolitan Club, 2018 *Invited Speaker, Herman Biggs Society, 2018 Keynote Speaker *Longer, Healthier Lives, and International Conference on Global Mental Health, Fountain House, NY 2018 *2018 Champion for Justice, Legal Services of Hudson Valley *2018 William B. Graham Prize in Health Services Research from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration   *Member, World Economic Forum Global Agenda for Healthcare Systems *John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators in health services research *Teacher of the Year award from the Yale School of Public Health *Investigator Award from the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation *Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame: Global Impact Honoree, November, 2015Connecticut Women Induction Ceremony 2015 Global Impact Honorees. http://cwhf.org/induction-ceremony/induction-ceremony-2015#.V-0qgz4rKAw *Board of Governors, SRM University, Amaravatii, India *Member, Council of Foreign Relations, 2018–present *Panelist, Council of Foreign Relations: Free Speech on Campuses, 2018


In the media

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:
The New York Times

Insider Higher Ed

Forbes.com

The Chronicle of Higher Education


See also

* American health care reform
Engaged Pluralism Initiative
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Health systems strengthening Health systems strengthening (also health system strengthening, abbreviated HSS) is a term used in global health that roughly means to improve the health care system of a country. Within this general definition, it can mean increasing funding for h ...
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Health administration 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 ...
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Yale School of Public Health The Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) was founded in 1915 by Charles-Edward Amory Winslow and is one of the oldest public health masters programs in the United States. It is consistently rated among the best schools of public health in the cou ...
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Grand Strategy Grand strategy or high strategy is a state's strategy of how means can be used to advance and achieve national interests. Issues of grand strategy typically include the choice of primary versus secondary theaters in war, distribution of resource ...
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Hospice Care in the United States In the United States, hospice care is a type and philosophy of end-of-life care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual or social in nature. The concept of hospi ...
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Branford College Branford College is one of the 14 residential colleges at Yale University. Founding Branford College was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle (built in 1917-21) into two parts: Saybrook and Branford. According to Robert Frost ...
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Health policy Health policy can be defined as the "decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society".World Health Organization''Health Policy'' accessed 22 March 2011(Web archive)/ref> According to the ...
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Health economics Health economics is a branch of economics concerned with issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, value and behavior in the production and consumption of health and healthcare. Health economics is important in determining how to improv ...
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Liberal arts education Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term ''art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the ...
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Liberal arts college A liberal arts college or liberal arts institution of higher education is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in liberal arts and sciences. Such colleges aim to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capac ...

Van Jones Commencement Address, Vassar 2019


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradley, Elizabeth H. Yale University faculty Harvard College alumni University of Chicago Booth School of Business alumni Yale School of Public Health alumni 1962 births Living people Presidents of Vassar College Members of the National Academy of Medicine