Elizabeth H. Bradley PhD
Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Director, Yale Global Health Initiative; Faculty Director, Global Health Leadership Institute; Master, Branford College, Yale College
Research Interests
Global health; Implementation science; Hospice care; Cardiovascular disease and quality of care; Management research
Current Projects
- Diffusion of Hospital Strategies to Improve Care for Heart Attack
- Ethiopian Health Extension Platform Evaluation and Planning
- Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women: Yale-Tsinghua Program in Health Management
- Improving the Transition from Acute to Palliative Care and Hospice
Research Summary
Professor Bradley is the director of Global Health Initiatives at the School of Public Health and chairs the Global Health Concentration Committee. Her research focuses on health services, with an emphasis on management and quality improvement. Her work in the U.S. focuses on the quality of hospital care for heart attack patients, as well as the use and quality of hospice services. Bradley also is involved in several projects in international settings, including ones in Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom, which focus on strengthening health systems. She is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda for Healthcare Systems and the Steering Committee for the Open Educational Resources in Public Health Conference, both of which seek innovative ways to enhance health system delivery in global settings. Bradley is a faculty associate for the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of Academy Health.
Extensive Research Description
Elizabeth Bradley is
faculty director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health
Leadership Institute at Yale, professor of public health and director of Global
Health Initiatives at the Yale University School of Public Health. Her research
focuses on health delivery systems and quality improvement and has contributed
important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the
hospital, nursing home and hospice settings. She has been involved with several
projects regarding health systems strengthening in international settings,
including China, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
The
recipient of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant, Dr. Bradley is also
leading the development of an operational framework of diffusion,
dissemination, and widespread take up of family health innovations. Findings
from this research can be integrated into future strategy development and
large-scale implementation efforts undertaken by the Gates Foundation and the
wider global health community.
She also works with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
the Clinton Health Access Initiative on the Ethiopian Hospital Management
Initiative. This work focuses on
building management capacity in the country to improve quality of care
throughout the country. Dr. Bradley and colleagues initiated the first Masters
of Hospital and Healthcare Management on the African continent and currently
works with several universities overseas in education and research programs.
Dr. Bradley is a graduate
of Harvard University, has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D.
in health economics and health policy from Yale University. She has received numerous honors and
awards during her career, including being a three-time recipient of the Teacher
of the Year award by the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale;
recipient of the John D. Thompson Young Investigator Award, and the
Investigator Award by the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. She served as a fellow with the
Gerontological Society of America and is a member of the American College of
Healthcare Executives. She has
been an author of more than 180 peer-reviewed publications and two books. Previously, she was director of the
health management program and co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical
Scholars Program at Yale. She also
served as hospital administrator at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Bradley
is a member of the World Economic Forum, Network of Global Agenda Councils and,
in 2010, she was selected facilitator for the strategic planning retreat for
the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and Malaria.
Selected Publications
- Bradley EH, Curry L. Taylor L, Pallas SW, Talbert-Slagle K, Yuan C, Fox A, Minhas D, Ciccone DK, Berg D, Pérez-Escamilla R. A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-and middle-income settings: A mixed methods study. BMJ Open 2: e000987 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000987, 2012
- Bradley EH, Curry LA. Spatz ES, Herrin J, Cherlin EJ, Curtis J, Thompson JW, Ting HH, Wang Y, Krumholz HM. Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction. Annals of Internal Medicine 156:618-626, 2012
- Bradley, E.H., Nembhard, I.M., Yuan, C.T., Stern, A.F., Curtis, J.P., Nallamothu, B.K., Krumholz, H.M. What is the experience of national quality campaigns? Views from the field. Health Services Research 45: 1651-1669. 2010.
- Bradley, E.H., Curry, L.A., Ramanadhan, S., Rowe, L. Krumholz, H.M. Research in Action: Using Positive Deviance to Improve Quality of Health Care. Implementation Science 4:25, 2009.
- Bradley E.H., Hartwig K.A., Rowe L., Cherlin E.J., Pashman J., Wong R., Dentry T., Abebe Y. Hospital Quality Improvement in Ethiopia: A Partnership-Mentoring Model. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 20: 392-399, 2008.
- Bradley E.H., Curry L.A., Devers K. Qualitative data analysis for health services research: Developing taxonomy, themes and theory. Health Services Research 2007 42:1758-1772.
- Bradley, E.H., Herrin, J., Elbel, B., McNamara, R.L., Magid, D.J., Nallamothu, B.K., Wang, Y., Normand, S.L., Spertus, J.A., Blaney, M., and Krumholz, H.M. Hospital Quality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Correlation Among Process Measures and Relationship with Short-term Mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association 296: 72-78, 2006.
- Bradley, E.H., Herrin, J., Wang, Y., Barton, B.A., Webster, T.R., Mattera, J.A., Roumanis, S.A., Curtis, J.P., Nallamothu, B.K., Magid, D.J., McNamara, R.L., Parkosewich, J., Loeb, J., and Krumholz, H.M. Strategies for Reducing the Door-to-Balloon Time in Acute Myocardial Infarction. New England Journal of Medicine 355: 2308-2320, 2006.
- Bradley, E.H., Herrin, J., Wang, Y., McNamara, R., Webster, T., Magid, D., Blaney, M., Peterson, E., Canto, J., Pollack, C., and Krumholz, H.M. for the NRMI Investigators. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Time to Acute Reperfusion Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Myocardial Infarction. Journal of American Medical Association 292: 1563-1572, 2004.
- Curry, L.A., Spatz, E., Cherlin, E., Thompson, J., Berg, D., Ting, H., Decker, C., Krumholz, H.M., Bradley, E.H. Improving Hospital Performance in 30-Day Risk Standardized Mortality: The Role of Organizational Practices and Context. Annals of Internal Medicine 154: 384-390, 2011.
Selected Publications
- Bradley EH, Curry L. Taylor L, Pallas SW, Talbert-Slagle K, Yuan C, Fox A, Minhas D, Ciccone DK, Berg D, Pérez-Escamilla R. A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-and middle-income settings: A mixed methods study. BMJ Open 2: e000987 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2012-000987, 2012
- Bradley EH, Curry LA. Spatz ES, Herrin J, Cherlin EJ, Curtis J, Thompson JW, Ting HH, Wang Y, Krumholz HM. Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction. Annals of Internal Medicine 156:618-626, 2012
- Bradley, E.H., Nembhard, I.M., Yuan, C.T., Stern, A.F., Curtis, J.P., Nallamothu, B.K., Krumholz, H.M. What is the experience of national quality campaigns? Views from the field. Health Services Research 45: 1651-1669. 2010.
- Bradley, E.H., Curry, L.A., Ramanadhan, S., Rowe, L. Krumholz, H.M. Research in Action: Using Positive Deviance to Improve Quality of Health Care. Implementation Science 4:25, 2009.
- Bradley E.H., Hartwig K.A., Rowe L., Cherlin E.J., Pashman J., Wong R., Dentry T., Abebe Y. Hospital Quality Improvement in Ethiopia: A Partnership-Mentoring Model. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 20: 392-399, 2008.
- Bradley E.H., Curry L.A., Devers K. Qualitative data analysis for health services research: Developing taxonomy, themes and theory. Health Services Research 2007 42:1758-1772.
- Bradley, E.H., Herrin, J., Elbel, B., McNamara, R.L., Magid, D.J., Nallamothu, B.K., Wang, Y., Normand, S.L., Spertus, J.A., Blaney, M., and Krumholz, H.M. Hospital Quality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Correlation Among Process Measures and Relationship with Short-term Mortality. Journal of the American Medical Association 296: 72-78, 2006.
- Bradley, E.H., Herrin, J., Wang, Y., Barton, B.A., Webster, T.R., Mattera, J.A., Roumanis, S.A., Curtis, J.P., Nallamothu, B.K., Magid, D.J., McNamara, R.L., Parkosewich, J., Loeb, J., and Krumholz, H.M. Strategies for Reducing the Door-to-Balloon Time in Acute Myocardial Infarction. New England Journal of Medicine 355: 2308-2320, 2006.
- Bradley, E.H., Herrin, J., Wang, Y., McNamara, R., Webster, T., Magid, D., Blaney, M., Peterson, E., Canto, J., Pollack, C., and Krumholz, H.M. for the NRMI Investigators. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Time to Acute Reperfusion Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Myocardial Infarction. Journal of American Medical Association 292: 1563-1572, 2004.
- Curry, L.A., Spatz, E., Cherlin, E., Thompson, J., Berg, D., Ting, H., Decker, C., Krumholz, H.M., Bradley, E.H. Improving Hospital Performance in 30-Day Risk Standardized Mortality: The Role of Organizational Practices and Context. Annals of Internal Medicine 154: 384-390, 2011.
- Curry, L., Luong, M., Krumholz, H.M., Gaddis, J., Kennedy, P., Rulisa, S., Taylor, L., Bradley, E.H. Achieving Large Ends with Limited Means: Grand Strategy in Global Health. International Health 2: 83-86, 2010.
- Yuan C.T., Dembry L.M., Higa B., Fu M., Wang H., and Bradley, E.H. Perceptions of hand hygiene practices in hospitals in China. Journal of Hospital Infection 71: 157-162, 2009.
- Cleveland, E.C., Dahn, D.T., Safer, M., Podesta, M., Bradley, E.H. Introducing Health Facility Accreditation in Liberia. Global Public Health 6: 271-282, 2011.
