Don A. Goldmann, Md

Biography

Don A. Goldmann, MD, Chief Scientific Officer Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), works to deepen IHI’s credibility and influence in improvement science and related disciplines. He forges relationships with key scientific, academic, educational, health services research, and professional organizations globally.Internally, he works to ensure the rigor of IHI’s results-oriented work, and to disseminate these results in presentations and peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Goldmann explores new ways to teach and learn and brings best educational practices and promising innovations to in-person and distance learning programs. He is lead faculty for a MOOC, developed in collaboration with HarvardX, on Practical Improvement Science. He also serves as senior mentor for IHI’s Fellowship Programs and the Harvard-Wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program he founded and now co-directs. He created and leads a Harvard College General Education course that explores how global infectious disease challenges often lead to social injustice. He advocates for closer integration of improvement science, informatics, and technology, with the goal of accelerating progress towards equity and population health. Dr. Goldmann serves on the AHRQ National Advisory Council, and the boards of AcademyHealth and the Institute for Medicaid Innovation. He is Professor of Pediatrics, Part Time, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Research Interest

In engaging the scientific community, he draws from his experience across the entire continuum of translational research, including bench science, infectious disease epidemiology, clinical trials, and implementation/quality improvement research.