Subcommittee Member: Lucy A. Savitz
Lucy A. Savitz, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Professor, Health Policy & Management
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Senior Advisor
UPMC Health Plan Services
Lucy A. Savitz, Ph.D., M.B.A., has more than three decades of experience in healthcare delivery and health services research. She is professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and senior advisor for UPMC Health Plan Services. Previously she was vice president for health research in the Kaiser Permanente (KP) Northwest Region and director for the KP Center for Health Research in Oregon.
Dr. Savitz has led numerous implementation and evaluation studies over her 30-plus year career with a focus on quality, safety, and elimination of unwarranted variation (i.e., waste). She was acknowledged as an examiner for the 2001 and 2002 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program, administered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the U.S. Department of Commerce and the American Society for Quality. Dr. Savitz served as faculty for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for 10 years, leading improvement collaboratives.
At AcademyHealth, she is immediate past chair on the Methods & Data Council and now serves as the inaugural chair of the data subcommittee as part of the Committee for Advocacy in Public Policy; she is also a member of the Delivery System Science Fellowship Program Committee, co-leads the Learning Health Systems Interest Group, and is a board member of that group. In addition, she serves as a current board member and immediate past chair for the Health Care Systems Research Network. Her current area of international thought leadership focuses on evolving the methods and metrics needed to accelerate the implementation of quality/safety interventions and realistic program evaluations that support learning health systems. Dr. Savitz is committed to population health and leveraging health system resources to promote well-being through community engagement, health promotion, access, affordability, equity, and healthy lifestyles for all.
