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Margaret E. Kruk

Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine

MD, MPH

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Dr. Margaret E. Kruk is the Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine at Washington University’s Bursky School of Public Health, and director of the QuEST Centers and Network, a multi-country research consortium generating evidence to improve health systems globally. Her research focuses on how health systems can improve health outcomes and build public trust in low- and high-income countries. She chaired the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems in the Sustainable Development Goals Era (HQSS Commission), which redefined health system quality measurement and improvement and has been cited over 5,000 times. The work has guided health system planning and improvement in a range of countries.

Prior to her arrival at WashU, Kruk was a professor of health systems at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; 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 a medical degree from McMaster University and an MPH from Harvard University.  

Areas of focus:

  • Health systems
  • Quality of care
  • Primary care quality
  • Patient-centered care
  • Global health policy

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