Lisa Simpson M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Lisa Simpson M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati.

Dr. Simpson is Director of the Child Policy Research Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Health Policy and Clinical Effectiveness, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati. The Center provides evidence based information to inform policy and program decisions at the local, state, and national levels with an emphasis on strategies to improve the quality of health care, the effectiveness of public programs, and child well being. 

Dr. Simpson, a board-certified pediatrician, also serves as the National Director for Child Health Policy at the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality, an education and research organization dedicated solely to improving the quality of health care provided to children, and leads the policy arm of the Childhood Obesity Action Network.  She also serves as an elected member of AcademyHealth’s Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Health Services Research as well as numerous other national committees. She was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of AHIC Successor Inc.  In addition, Dr. Simpson was recently appointed by Governor Beshear to co-chair the Committee on Child Health of the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Commission on Philanthropy.