Leslie Curry

Leslie Curry’s research focuses on health care access, quality, and outcomes in hospital, community and institutional 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 government agencies and health care providers in these efforts. Her work has been supported by a variety of funders including National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, The Commonwealth Fund, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and The World Bank. Ms. Curry is an internationally recognized expert in qualitative and mixed methods, and was appointed to a working group commissioned by the National Institutes of Health to develop Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences in 2011. A Fellow of Branford College at Yale, Leslie teaches extensively and provides mentoring at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate levels in public health and medicine.