Lauren A Taylor, MDiv, M.P.H., Ph.D. studies governance and management of health improvement efforts within the United States and abroad. She worked briefly as a consultant for the Global Fund and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and has since written on the institutionalization of global health, how to reform the World Health Organization, the responsibilities of health systems to address social determinants of health and the problem of dirty hands for health policymakers. In 2013, she co-authored The American Health Care Paradox with Elizabeth Bradley.

For several years, Lauren co-taught Global Health Ethics at Harvard Medical School with Sadath Sayeed. In addition to her teaching at Wagner, she teaches a course on Professional Responsibility to students NYU Stern.

She holds a Masters in Public Health from Yale and a Masters in Divinity from Harvard. Her Ph.D. from Harvard Business School focused on organizational theory and business ethics. Lauren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Authored by Lauren A. Taylor, MDiv, M.P.H., Ph.D.