Patricia Pittman
Executive Vice President

Patricia (Polly) Pittman, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President of AcademyHealth where she oversees multiple research and policy projects, international programs, conferences, professional development, knowledge transfer projects and the organization's development and evaluation activities. She is a Lecturer in International Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.  Her published work has focused on cross-country comparisons in the area of quality improvement, care management, disparities and workforce issues. She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, the World Bank, Johns Hopkins University and multiple foundations. Prior to joining AcademyHealth, she worked for the Pan American Health Organization in the Women, Health and Development program, and subsequently in the Division of Health Systems and Services. In the 1980 and early 1990s she lived and worked in Argentina, where she co-founded and directed a women's health advocacy organization and later served as the Director of Social Programs for the Province of Buenos Aires.  Dr. Pittman received a B.A. with honors in political science from Yale University, a PhD in Medical Anthropology and a Diploma in Public Health from the University of Buenos Aires, and completed her post-doctoral studies at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

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E-mail: patricia.pittman@academyhealth.org