Health Systems Quality was co-founded by Zainab Magdon-Ismail, DrPH and Sheree Murphy, MS. We are on a mission to bring together health departments, NGOs, health providers and EMS to refine and improve healthcare delivery systems globally.
Core Expertise
Navigating complex healthcare delivery systems.
Using evidence and data for healthcare decision making.
Bringing together stakeholders to facilitate healthcare improvement.
Negotiation and consensus building.
Developing measures and metrics for quality control.
Program evaluation.
Securing of funds from large foundations/government entities.
Projects
Improving emergency stroke care collaborating with neurologists at the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology (SVIN)/Mission
Thrombectomy 2020+ around the world. Focus: low and middle-income countries.
Improving emergency response in the US, with Mt. Sinai,
Rutgers and other partners.
Increasing completion of cardiac rehabilitation in New York with
several partners.
Team
Zainab Magdon-Ismail, Co-founder, has a background in public health and has served in leadership capacities at several health plans as well as the American Heart Association where she oversaw a team responsible for the delivery and implementation of the Get With The Guidelines® and Mission Lifeline® suite of quality improvement programs.
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Her forte is fostering collaboration with partner organizations for the benefit of coordinated care. She has worked on several heart attack and stroke response projects across the Northeast and has experience in transitions of care from the acute to the subacute space. Zainab has served as consultant to the Harvard Prevention and Research Center, The Los Angeles County Department of Health and Sesame Street; she is also a freelance reporter for National Public Radio (NPR). She received her undergraduate degree in psychology and international development from McGill University, her master's degrees in education and public health from Harvard University and her doctorate in health policy and management from the State University of New York at Albany. She is a Certified Professional in Health Care Quality and has authored several papers related to leadership in health care as well as care delivery.
Sheree Murphy, Co-founder, is an exercise physiologist by training specializing in cardiac rehabilitation. She recently became a licensed EMT with a passion for EMS and disaster preparedness. She currently serves as Executive Director for the National EMS Quality Alliance and manages a cardiac rehabilitation project for the New York State Department of Health.
... Prior to these roles, Sheree worked at the American Heart Association in different capacities, as a Director of Quality and Systems Improvement as well as a resident data and measures expert for the Association. She has been a consistent consultant for the New York State Department of Health on pre- and post-cardiac and stroke systems of care and has worked as a clinical exercise physiologist at Doylestown Health. Sheree completed her undergraduate studies at Messiah University and received her master's in cardiac rehabilitation and exercise science at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Certified Professional in Health Care Quality.
Molly Perini, consultant, brings over 12 years of experience in public health, specializing in adoption of evidence-based policies grounded in equitywith a focus on maternal health. Her experience spans project management, healthcare quality monitoring, assurance and improvement, qualitative and quantitative research, including international work in Tanzania and Nigeria.
... She is skilled in high-level stakeholder engagement, grant management, advocacy and health education and communication. Molly has experience working in complex operating environments and overseeing large, dynamic research and healthcare quality improvement projects. Examples of this include managing stroke and cardiac state and regional-level health systems improvement projects while a Senior Director at the American Heart Association and serving as Country Coordinator in Nigeria for IMPACT Initiatives, a think and do tank based in Geneva. Molly received her Master of Public Health in Global Health from Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and her Bachelor's in International Studies, focusing on Global Health and African Studies from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
