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Margaret Kruk, MD, MPH
Distinguished Endowed Professor of Health Systems & Medicine, Division of General Medicine & Geriatrics

University Wide QuEST Center Director

Washington University in St. Louis

Dr. Kruk is Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine in the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.  Dr. Kruk studies how health systems can improve health and generate trust across countries.  Working with colleagues in Africa, India, South America, and Europe, she develops novel measures of health system quality and the studies the effects of quality on population confidence in health care and health outcomes.  Dr. Kruk and her team use implementation science and econometric methods to design and evaluate large-scale health system reforms. 

Dr. Kruk is Director of the QuEST Centers and Network, a multi-country research consortium working to produce a global evidence base for improving health systems. The QuEST Network responds to the findings of the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the SDG Era (HQSS Commission), a global research and policy initiative chaired by Dr. Kruk.  QuEST develops new instruments to assess health system quality, tests structural solutions to health system deficits, and supports expansion of high-impact health systems research in partner countries.

Previously, Dr. Kruk was Professor of Health Systems at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  Prior to Harvard she served as Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Better Health Systems Initiative at Columbia University and Assistant Professor of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan.  She has held posts at the United Nations Development Program and McKinsey and Company and practiced medicine in northern Ontario, Canada.  She holds an MD degree from McMaster University and an MPH from Harvard University. 

Attendance

Lunch will be provided for those attending in-person, please indicate any dietary restrictions or allergies during registration.

This is a hybrid event with opportunities to attend in person at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center and virtually via Zoom.