Margaret Elizabeth Kruk

Margaret Elizabeth Kruk is an American public health expert, physician and health systems researcher who is serving as Distinguished Professor of Health Systems and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.

Previously, she was Professor of Health Systems at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Quality of Evidence for Health Transformation (QuEST) Centers and Network.

Kruk is most known for her work on measuring health system quality and its impact on healthcare demand, health outcomes, and trust, using observational studies, implementation science and econometric methods. She has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters. In 2018, she chaired the Lancet Global Health Commission on High Quality Health Systems. She co-edited the third edition of the Disease Control Priorities book series and served on The Lancet Commissions on Investing in Health I and III, and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Health System Strengthening, among others. She also served as co-lead for the Bulletin of the World Health Organization Special Issue on Health Care Quality in the SDG Era.