Education
Harvard University; Union College.
Harvard University; Union College.
Doctor Goldie has a secondary appointment as Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine (Harvard Medical School). Her professional agenda includes improving women's health in all parts of the world, using evidence-based policy to reduce global health inequities, building bridges between disciplines to tackle critical public health challenges, and fostering innovation in education. Personal interests include martial arts (Tae Kwon Do), skiing, climbing, and training her two golden retrievers.
Trained as a physician, decision scientist, and public health researcher, Doctor Goldie’s decision analytic work has focused on viruses of global health importance, vaccine-preventable diseases, and maternal mortality.
She has served on the Board on Global Health for the Institute of Medicine and several technical advisory boards for the World Health Organization. She was awarded a MacArthur grant “for genius and creativity” in applying the tools of decision science to combat major public health problems (2005-2010), and was elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (2009).
She teaches RDS 280 (Decision Science for Public Health) at the School of Public Health and SW24 (Global Health Challenges: Complexity of Evidence-based Policy) at the College. She serves on the Standing Committee on Health Policy and is actively involved with the university-wide Doctor of Philosophy program in health policy.
2010 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Visiting Professorship 2009 John Eisenberg Award 2009 Elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences 2008 Roger Irving Lee Endowed Chair, Harvard School of Public Health 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program 2005 Distinguished Alumni Award, Albany Medical College.
