Margaret E. Mahoney

Margaret Ellerbe Mahoney (born October 24, 1924 in Nashville , Tennessee , † December 22, 2011 in New York City , New York ) was a manager of various non-profit organizations, particularly in the health care sector.

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Mahoney earned a BA in International Relations from Vanderbilt University in 1946 . Her studies were interrupted by brief military service for the United States Army Signal Corps .

Mahoney first worked as a secretary for the United States Department of State's Bureau for Relations with UNESCO , where she eventually rose to head a program for cultural affairs. Here she initiated or organized institutions such as the International Theater Institute , the International Association of the Plastic Arts and the International Music Council . In 1953 she moved to the Carnegie Corporation of New York , one of the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States, where she was initially involved in the acquisition of endowments for cultural purposes and later for health promotion purposes. In 1972 she accepted the position of Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ( Johnson & Johnson ). From 1975 to 1979 she also taught in the Science and Human Affairs program at Princeton University .

From 1980 to 1995, Mahoney was President of the Commonwealth Fund , a major American health care foundation. Here she was able to establish pioneering programs to improve health care for women or single elderly people and to improve academic hospitals. Her programs to train physicians for leadership roles in politics, administration and health institutions, and to improve patient focus in health care, had particular aftereffects .

After working for the Coomonwealth Fund, Mahoney served as President of MEM Associates , a New York non-profit consulting firm dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Americans. Their best-known initiative was the Healthy Steps for Young Children Program to improve health care for children up to the age of three.

Since 1985 Mahoney has been a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1988 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1993 to the American Philosophical Society . She was also a member of the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine ), which she helped found, and held numerous honorary doctorates from colleges and universities, including Smith College , Williams College , Brandeis University, and the Medical College of Pennsylvania (to Drexel University ).

Donors of more than $ 1,000 to the CDC Foundation (Foundation to benefit the work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , CDC) become members of the Margaret Ellerbe Mahoney Society . The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) has a Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship in health management . In the late 1990s, NYAM presented a Margaret E. Mahoney Award for excellence in health care several times at symposia in honor of Margaret Mahoney .

literature

• JA Barondess: Margaret E. Mahoney: career highlights. In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Volume 72, number 2 Suppl, 1995, p. 551, PMID 19313114 , PMC 2359296 (free full text).
• Ann B. Gordon, Sammuel O. Thier, John E. Craig, Karen Davis: Margaret E. Mahoney. In: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , Vol. 157, No. 2, June 2013.

Web links

• Margaret E. Mahoney papers at Five Colleges Archives & Manuscript Collections
• Margaret E. Mahoney H '76. In: Princeton Alumni Weekly , September 19, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 3, 2019 . 
2. ^ Margaret E. Mahoney. In: amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed March 6, 2019 . 
3. ^ The Margaret Ellerbe Mahoney Society. In: cdcfoundation.org. CDC Foundation, accessed March 6, 2019 . 
4. ^ The Margaret E. Mahoney Fellowship in Health Policy. In: nyam.org. New York Academy of Medicine, accessed March 6, 2019 .