Faculty and Staff
Faculty Director
Elizabeth H. Bradley, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Bradley, PhD, is Professor of Public Health and Director of Global Health Initiatives at the School of Public Health, and directs the Health Management Program in the School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health delivery and quality improvement. Dr. Bradley has contributed important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the hospital, nursing home, and hospice settings. Dr. Bradley has several projects regarding health system strengthening in international settings, including Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. She is a member of the World Economic Forum, Network of Global Agenda Councils, and the Steering Committee for the Open Educational Resources in Public Health Conference, aimed at developing innovative ways to enhance health system delivery in global settings. Dr. Bradley has a BA from Harvard, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and a PhD from Yale University in health economics and health policy.
Executive Director
Michael Skonieczny, Yale School of Public Health
Mike Skonieczny, MPA, is Executive Director of the Global Health Leadership Institute. Mr. Skonieczny was the Director of Public Policy for Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, where he led the organization's advocacy efforts focused on expanding U.S. financial support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Prior to Friends, he was a Senior Public Policy Officer at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, where he mainly focused on global AIDS funding, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, pediatric treatment and related issues. Mr. Skonieczny also was a Legislative Assistant to Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT), primarily staffing her on appropriations and health-related issues. He is a graduate of Penn State University, and has a master's degree from the George Washington University.
Associate Director
Erika Linnander, Yale School of Public Health
Erika Linnander is Associate Director of Programs with the Global Health Leadership Institute. Her current work focuses on improving health outcomes related to cardiovascular disease in Egypt. A new member of the GHLI team, Ms. Linnander recently completed an Administrative Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Health System. Working in hospital operations and quality improvement, her fellowship projects ranged from the stabilization of the surgical implant supply chain to the implementation of strategies to reduce time to treatment for patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction. She has coordinated health management programming in a variety of hospital and health system settings, including efforts in Malawi, Haiti, Liberia, and Nicaragua.
Ms Linnander received her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey School of Business.
Program Managers
Brian Seavey, Yale School of Public Health
Brian Seavey is the Program Co-Manager for the Global Health Leadership Institute. In addition, Mr. Seavey is the Program Manager for the Global Health Concentration at the Yale School of Public Health. Previously, Mr. Seavey gained experience in health systems research with the Millennium Cities Initiative in Senegal and he spent two years working on small enterprise development with the Peace Corps in Mali. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia and his MPH from the Yale School of Public Health.
Faculty
David Berg, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Berg, MA, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. From 1977-1992 Dr. Berg was a professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management where he taught courses in organizational behavior, group dynamics, research methods and organizational diagnosis. His current efforts focus on helping physicians develop their understanding of groups and organizations. Dr. Berg strives to maintain connections between the world of ideas and the world of practice. He is the author of numerous articles and books including Paradoxes of Group Life (with Kenwyn Smith), Failures in Organization Development and Change (edited with Philip Mirvis) and Rediscovering Groups (with Marshall Edelson). Dr. Berg received his BA and MA from Yale University and his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan.
Paul Cleary, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Cleary, MS, PhD, is CEA Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health. His current research focuses on how organizational characteristics affect the costs and quality of care for persons with AIDS, a national evaluation of a continuous quality improvement initiative in clinics providing care to HIV infected individuals, and the long term impact of patient-centered hospital care. He is Principal Investigator of one of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems grants to develop surveys for collecting information from consumers regarding their health plans and services. He also is leading a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project to facilitate and stimulate research on Public Health Systems. A member of the Institute of Medicine, Dr. Cleary earned his BS, MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
Leslie Curry, Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Curry, MPH, PhD, is a Research Scientist at Yale School of Public Health and a Core faculty member of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at the Yale School of Medicine. Her research addresses chronic care needs of frail populations, focusing on innovative models of long term care financing and delivery and the translation of research into practice. Dr. Curry has substantial experience in health policy and program implementation and evaluation, with emphasis on collaboration with government agencies and policymakers. She is an internationally recognized expert in the use of qualitative and mixed methods in public health and health services research. Dr. Curry has a BA from Tufts University, and MPH and PhD degrees from the University of Connecticut.
Howard Forman, Yale School of Management and Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Forman a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Management, and Public Health. His research focuses on diagnostic radiology, health policy, and healthcare leadership. He is the faculty founder and director of the MD/MBA program between Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Management as well as the co-director of the School of Management's MBA for Executives Program. As a practicing cross-sectional and emergency/trauma radiologist, he is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, healthcare compliance, and contracting. He has worked as a legislative fellow in the US Senate, focusing on Medicare legislation. He is the current Treasurer of the American Roentgen Ray Society. He received his BS from the City College of New York, an MD degree from State University of New York and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Gaddis, PhD, is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of History and Political Science and Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy at Yale University, where he teaches Cold War history, grand strategy, and biography. Professor Gaddis has also taught at Ohio University, the United States Naval War College, the University of Helsinki, Princeton University, and Oxford University. His most recent books include The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002), Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004), The Cold War: A New History (2005), and a new edition of Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (2005). Professor Gaddis has received two awards for undergraduate teaching at Yale, and was a 2005 recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Dr. Gaddis received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin.
Charles Hill is a diplomat in residence and lecturer in International Studies at Yale University. He is a career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service, serving in a variety of roles such as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Middle East at the State Department, Chief of Staff of the same, and executive aid to former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Dr. Hill has been a fellow at the Harvard University East Asia Research Center, a Clark fellow at Cornell University, and is currently a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as special consultant on policy to the secretary-general of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996. Dr. Hill has collaborated with former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Egypt's Road to Jerusalem, a memoir of the Middle East peace negotiations, and Unvanquished, about U.S. relations with the U.N. in the post–cold war period. He is also the editor of the three-volume Papers of U.N. Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali, published by Yale University Press. He received an A.B. degree from Brown University in 1957, a J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960, and an M.A. degree in American studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 1961.
Dr. Kennedy, DPhil is the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, and Brady-Johnson Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy. Dr. Kennedy coordinates the John M. Olin Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Military History and Strategy and is responsible for the ISS programs funded by the Smith Richardson Foundation. He is internationally known for his writings and commentaries on global political, economic, and strategic issues. He is a former Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University, and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn. He holds many honorary degrees, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 2000 for services to History and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in June 2003. Dr. Kennedy obtained his BA at Newcastle University and his DPhil at the University of Oxford.
Harlan Krumholz, Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health
Dr. Krumholz, MS, MD is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, and Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. His research focuses on determining optimal clinical strategies and identifying opportunities for improvement in the care of patients with or at risk for cardiovascular disease. He leads federal initiatives to develop national mortality measures for public reporting of hospital performance. Dr. Krumholz serves as Principal Investigator on two multi-center projects sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute examining: the care and outcomes of young women with acute myocardial infarction, and the effect of a telemonitoring strategy on the outcomes of patients with heart failure. Dr. Krumholz, a member of the Institute of Medicine, received his MD from Harvard Medical School and an SM in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Krumholz lead a US delegation to the first of its kind Yale-Fuwai Session on Outcomes Research in Beijing, China. Click here to read more.
Minh A. Luong, Yale University and Yale School of Management
Minh A. Luong is Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Center in Grand Strategy and Assistant Director of International Security Studies at Yale University. Dr. Luong also serves as Faculty Fellow in the Yale School of Management (SOM) and previously held faculty appointments in the Departments of History and served as a visiting professor in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. He served two terms as International Affairs Council Fellow at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. Prof. Luong founded and directs the Yale Ivy Scholars Program, an intensive summer leadership training program that attracts 50 top high school student leaders from across the nation and around the world. As a senior advisor to international organizations and government agencies, Dr. Luong lectures extensively and conducts industry training programs on international trends and threats, leadership and management development, strategic planning and execution, business intelligence, crisis management, and other security and intelligence-related issues. He has worked on critical projects for industry-leading organizations such as: the United Nations, AT&T, Boston Financial, New England Financial/Metropolitan Life, EquiServe, E*Trade, ExxonMobil, General Motors, Monitor Group, among others. His recent publications include a major chapter on economic intelligence in the Routledge security series volume, Handbook of Intelligence Studies published in late 2007 and a chapter titled “Global Economic Espionage: An Ancient Art, Now a Science” in Strategic Intelligence: The International Encyclopedia of Intelligence, released in mid-2007. He is currently working on a book on global economic and industrial espionage.
Elijah Paintsil, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Paintsil is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Yale University School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. His Ghanaian heritage and first-hand experience in managing HIV/AIDS with limited resources have greatly influenced his medical career. His clinical interests include the management of drug resistant HIV; prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; and pediatric antiretroviral therapy monitoring in resource-limited settings. His research interests focus on the cellular pharmacology of nucleoside analogs in relation to treatment response, drug toxicity, and evolution of drug resistance. In 2006, Dr. Paintsil and his colleagues established the Yale-Ghana Partnership in Global Infectious Diseases Research. The mission of this initiative is to accelerate progress in infectious diseases and public health research in Africa through collaborative partnerships that effectively build intrinsic research capacity, reverse “brain-drain” by strengthening academic infrastructures, and create viable career opportunities for African and American scientists.
