Sue Goldie

Sue J. Goldie (born 1961) is an American physician and scientist who is recognized for her contributions to public health and decision science.

As of 2024, Goldie is the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health and Policy Management and the director of the Center for Health Decision Science at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the director of the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator and founding faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute at Harvard University.

Education
Goldie attended Union College (1984), Albany Medical College (1988), completed her internship and residency at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine (1988-1991), and earned her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health (1997) where she was also a recipient of a fellowship award from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (1995-1997).

Career
In 1998, Goldie joined the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health, now Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She received tenure in 2006. In 2007, she was named the Roger Irving Lee Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She has a secondary appointment as professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School.

At Harvard, she teaches courses in decision science, clinical decision making, health policy, public health and global health for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals.

Goldie co-chaired the Harvard Initiative for Global Health from 2007 to 2009. In 2010, she was appointed as founding director of the Harvard Global Health Institute by then Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust. In 2014, Goldie was named the special advisor to the Provost on global health education and was appointed as the director of the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator (GHELI) at Harvard University.

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).

Awards

 * 2005 — MacArthur Fellows Program
 * 2009 — elected to the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences