Sheila Leatherman

Sheila Tayback Leatherman, Hon. CBE (born November 1951),[1] is an American research professor in the health policy and management department (2000 to present)[2][3][4] and a Gillings Visiting Professor (2007 to present)[5] at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health,[6] as well as a visiting professor of the London School of Economics and distinguished associate of Darwin College at the Cambridge University, England.

She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine at the United States National Academy of Sciences since 2002 where she serves on the Global Health Board and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in the UK (since 2005). Professor Leatherman was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997 to the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry.

She has a broad background in health care management in American state and federal health agencies, as Senior Associate at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, and as senior executive of the United Health Care Corporation. She serves as a Trustee of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the Executive Boards of the International Society for Quality as a Trustee of Freedom From Hunger[7] and the American Refugee Committee. In January 2010, Sheila Leatherman joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) as a Senior Fellow,[8] devoting her time to a variety of IHI projects that draw on her unique expertise and experience.

Honors

Professor Leatherman was awarded an honorary CBE in 2007 for a decade of service in research on the NHS.

UK Publications

She was commissioned by the Nuffield Trust to assess the UK Government's quality reforms for the NHS in 1997-98 and evaluated the mid-term impact of the ten year quality agenda in the NHS The Quest for Quality in the NHS (published in 2003) and Quest for Quality in the NHS: A Chartbook on Quality in the UK (published in 2005), and Refining the NHS Reforms (2008).

USA Publications

She has also co-authored a series of chartbooks on quality of health care in the U.S., commissioned by the Commonwealth Fund:

  • General (2002)
  • Child and Adolescent Health (2004)
  • Medicare population (2005).

In 2010, an article she co-authored entitled Linking health to microfinance to reduce poverty[9] was published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

References
  1. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/jdlfQxUEbUiZg2IzSfT73okFrnE/appointments
  2. UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Profile Page for Sheila Leatherman, MSW
  3. Sheila Leatherman's CV
  4. Microcredit and Global Health, The Dean's Lecture Series, Public Health Transformation for the 21st Century, September 24, 2007.
  5. Sheila Leatherman: First Gillings Visiting Professor
  6. UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health homepage
  7. Freedom from Hunger Board of Trustees
  8. Profiles in Improvement: Sheila Leatherman, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ihi.org; accessed December 9, 2016.
  9. Leatherman, Sheila, and Dunford, Christopher (2010). "Linking health to microfinance to reduce poverty". Bulletin of the World Health Organization 88(6), 470-1
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