Leslie Curry

Leslie Curry, MPH, PhD, is a professor emerita of health policy and management at the Yale School of Public Health, professor of management at Yale School of Management, lecturer in Yale College, and serves among core faculty at the Yale Global Health Leadership Initiative. Her research focuses on management, culture, and organizational performance in diverse health care settings in the U.S. and internationally. She is especially interested in the development and scale-up of innovative, evidence-based health practices, programs, and policies and regularly collaborates with health and social care providers in these efforts. She was a Public Voices Thought Leader Fellow in 2016–17. Professor Curry’s work has been published in JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, Health Affairs, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the BMJ, and featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and on NPR and ABC News.

Professor Curry’s current primary research portfolio includes (1) MPI on an NIH R01 funded effort, Champions Advancing Racial Equity in Sepsis (CARES), to develop and evaluate a coalition-based leadership intervention to equip health systems and their surrounding communities to mitigate structural racism and drive measurable reductions in inequities in sepsis outcomes; (2) Leading ICUs for Transformation (LIFT): preparing ICU leadership in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to drive transformation in performance with the College of Intensive Care Medicine; (3) collaborations with Drs. Dowin Boatright and Sarwat Chaudry on several NIH-funded R01s focused on increasing diversity in the biomedical workforce; and (4) co-investigator roles on studies using positive deviance methodologies to improve health care performance and outcomes.

Her work has been supported by a variety of funders including NIH, AHRQ, The Commonwealth Fund, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and The World Bank. Professor Curry is a recognized expert in qualitative and mixed methods and regularly teaches at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is co-author of Mixed Methods in the Health Sciences: A Practical Primer, commissioned by Sage Publications, 2015.