MEET THE CANDIDATE!!!!

APHA Executive Board Candidate: Dr. Maggie Huff-Rousselle 

Dr. Huff-Rousselle was kind enough to share with us her vision for APHA, as well as the strengths she brings to leadership.

Experience in Policy-Formulation and Consensus-Building on Executive Bodies: Dr. Maggie Huff-Rousselle has worked on policy- and decision-making bodies in the health sector for decades, e.g. seven years on the Health Ministers’ Policy Board in the Eastern Caribbean (seven countries), the Global Fund Technical Review Panel, the APHA Governing Council, etc. Her varied roles in international health have made Dr. Huff-Rousselle well-attuned to stakeholder needs, and very pragmatic in ensuring that multiple stakeholders are engaged in a process and that their perspectives are taken into consideration. Dr. Huff-Rousselle’s background is very multi-disciplinary, and her long-term program experience includes: 1) health sector reform insurance; 2) reproductive and sexual health; 3) pharmaceutical financing, management and policy; 4) maternal and child health; and 5) HIV/AIDS.

Experience in Management, Program Development and Resource Mobilization: Dr. Huff-Rousselle has a dual MBA (in Health Management and Public Management), and has founded or been instrumental in the establishment of five health sector organizations. Both her training and her practical experience have given Dr. Huff-Rousselle a very strong financial management and planning background, including controller functions in U.S.-based non-profits and management of health sector projects with budgets as large as $30 million. Her experience in financing – not limited to control functions – encompasses the incentives in pricing, and this experience will be useful in advising on membership dues, and the trade-offs (as viewed by members) of the benefits of membership. Dr. Huff-Rousselle also has a great deal of experience studying the way in which the health sector’s financing systems can “make everything tick” and create incentives.

Bringing a Global Perspective to the Executive Board and US-based Health Sector Reform: Dr. Huff-Rousselle has residency experience in both Canada (where she was born) and France.  She has managed health sector reform projects (with national health insurance as a key issue) in other countries where the models of Western health care systems were compared and contrasted. Dr. Huff-Rousselle has also lived in nine countries and worked short-term in approximately 50 different nations. She is able to situate the United States (both theoretically and practically) in an appropriate comparative international context to help inform the current health sector debate, and to bring a global perspective to this and other discussions on the Executive Board.