	Peggy A. Honore, DHA 2020 Gravier Street 3rd Floor New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568-5912 Health Policy Fellowship Application Population Health Management Rotation Application
Degrees	Bachelor of Science Accounting - 1979 Southern University Master of Health Administration - 1994 Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Doctor of Health Administration - 2004 Medical University of South Carolina
Bio	Peggy A. Honoré, DHA is the AmeriHealth Caritas – General Russel Honoré Endowed Professor at Louisiana State University (LSU) Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Systems Management, and School of Medicine, Department of Medicine. She is acknowledged as a prominent administrator, researcher, and educator with a unique proven track record of accomplishments in private industry, healthcare, and higher education. She is known as a leading national authority on financing of the public health system given her pioneering work in this area over the past 20 years. Dr. Honore’s research and teaching areas include health policy, quality, workforce, and finance. At LSU she created and directs a Health Policy Fellowship Program that provides LSU medical students the opportunity to participate in a summer on-site fellowship in Congress and other Washington D.C. based organizations. Dr. Honoré also directs the Population Health Management Rotation Program for LSU medical students and Residents who do a 4-week rotation at AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana, a Medicaid managed care organization. Dr. Honoré currently serves as an invited expert to the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region on financing of public health systems. She is a member of the WHO Coalition of Partners for Strengthening Public Health Capacities and Services in Europe. Consultancies in 2016 and 2017 include missions to Ukraine, Denmark, and Greece. Accomplishments in public health finance that attracted WHO to her work include development of the Public Health Uniform National Data System (PHUND$) that is the only mechanism in the U.S. for the collection, reporting, and analysis of local public health agency financial data, developer and curator of the Public Health Finance and Management website that provides knowledge to improve and sustain the public health system, and over 20 publications (book chapters, peer reviewed journal articles) including guest editing 2 special journal issues on public health finance topics. In 2005, Dr. Honoré established the Public Health Finance Roundtable as an adjunct meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and has continued to host the event over the past 13 years. She also convened the first and only national conference on public health finance in 2007 as an adjunct meeting of the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting. Prior to returning fulltime to LSU in June 2015 she served for 8 years as the Director of the Public Health System, Finance and Quality Program in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In that role she led HHS-wide efforts to develop national concepts and conducted research on quality in the public health system. Her research at HHS included examinations for the integration of health care and public health quality to achieve greater population health improvements, examinations to quantify disparities in healthcare-acquired infections, dialogue with IRS and related analysis on alignments between guidelines for community benefit and community building activities, and undergraduate (Community College) public health education with emphasis on the emerging role of health navigation. Related to her work on health navigator education, she served as a task force member to the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Office of the U.N. Special Envoy for Health in Agenda 2030 that developed the 2016 report to set guidelines and principles related to community health workers/health navigators. Closing the Gap Major achievements within her portfolio at HHS include development of the HHS Consensus Statement on Quality in the Public Health System with participation from Directors of every HHS agency, the report Priority Areas for Improvement of Quality in Public Health, public health quality assessment tools used in clinical and public health settings, and materials for academic coursework in public health finance, quality, and health navigation. Her professional experiences in finance and health care administration include roles as COO/CFO for a group of four medical clinics in New Orleans, corporate finance as an analyst for Exxon Company USA and financial controllership responsibilities over 6 states for McDonald’s Corporation, Vice President for Finance and Administration at two universities, and Chief Science (Research) Officer and CFO for two state health departments. In 2006 she testified before and worked with a U. S. Senate HELP subcommittee on the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act. In that role she conducted research to inform the work of the Senate Committee and provided language for inclusion in the law to support a $50 million appropriation for public health systems research. Dr. Honoré served from 2012-2015 as a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health and for two years (2013-2015) on the ASPPH’s Framing the Future: The Second 100 Years of Education for Public Health Task Force. She also served on the Leadership Team and Community Improvement HUB for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) 100 Million Healthier Lives initiative. Book chapters authored by Dr. Honoré include topics on health policy, public health quality, and public health finance. She has authored 40 peer reviewed publications in addition to several government reports. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice and on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) National Guideline Clearinghouse and National Quality Measures Clearinghouse editorial boards. She also serves on the Advisory Committee for the Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support Program at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Dr. Honoré holds adjunct titles at Tulane University and the Medical University of South Carolina. She was honored with two Teacher of the Year Awards from the University of Southern Mississippi and University of Texas-Tyler. She was also selected as a member of Delta Omega Society for her outstanding accomplishments to the field of public health. In 2014 she received both the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence in Health Administration and the National Medical Association Award for Health Systems Improvements to create standards of health policy, advocacy, and health equity. Dr. Honoré earned a Doctorate in Health Administration (DHA) with honors (1st in class) from the Medical University of South Carolina and Master of Health Administration (MHA) from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has an undergraduate degree in Accounting. She is a native of New Orleans and has one daughter, who resides in New Haven, CT.
Selected Publications	Book Chapters: Honoré, P.A., Gapenski, L. C. (2013). Public Health Finance. L. Shi (ED.), In Novick and Morrow’s Public Health Administration: Principles for Population Health Management. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers Honoré, P.A., Lesneski, C., Clancy, C. (2013). Public Health Quality. L. Shi (ED.), In Novick and Morrow’s Public Health Administration: Principles for Population Health Management. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers Honoré, P. A. (2010). The role of health policy, advocacy, and health equity in health systems improvements to eliminate health disparities. In L. Jack (Ed.), Diabetes in Black America: Public health and clinical solutions to a national crisis. (pp. 462-471). Munster, IN: Hilton Publishing. Government Reports: Honoré, P. A., & Scott, W. (2010). Priority Areas for Improvement of Quality in Public Health. Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services. Honoré, P.A. (2008). Consensus Statement on Quality in the Public Health System. Washington, DC: Department of Health and Human Services. Journals: Publications: Honoré, P.A. (2016).An examination of public health financial management system accreditation standards. Journal of Health Care Finance, Vol 43, No 2, Fall 2016. Honoré, P.A. (In Press 2015) A vision for the role of Community colleges in the profession of public health. Pedagogy in Health Education. Studnicki, J., Fisher, J. W., German, D.C., Stout, S., Honoré, P.A. (In-Press 2015) Demonstrating subpopulation analytics: A paradigm shift for population health. Am J Prev Med. Marton, J., Sung, J., Honoré, P. (2015). Does public health spending buy better health? Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1177/2333392815580750 Honoré, P.A. (2015). Transforming public health economic and financial analytical practices through the Affordable Care Act. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 21(1):83-86. Honoré, P.A. (2014). Aligning public health workforce competencies with population health improvement goals. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 47(5):S344 - 345 Studnicki, J., Ekezue, B.F., Tsulukidze, M., Honoré, P.A., Moonesinghe, R., Fisher, J. (2014). Classification tree analysis of race specific subgroups at risk for a central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 40(3):134-142 Studnicki J., Ekezue, B.F., Tsulukidze, M., Honoré, P.A., Moonesinghe, R., Fisher, J. (2013). Disparity in Race-Specific Comorbidities associated with central venous Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection (AHRQ-PS-17). American Journal of Medical Quality, 28(6):525-532. Honoré, P.A. (2012). Measuring progress in public health finance. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, (18)4:306-308. Honoré, P.A., Stefanak M, Dessens, S. (2012) Anatomy of a public health agency turnaround: The Case of the General Health District in Mahoning County. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, (18)4:364-371 Honoré, P.A., Wright, D., Koh, H. K. (2012). Bridging the Quality Chasm between Health Care and Public Health. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 18(1):1-3. Gapenski, L.C., Morris, M.E., Honoré, P.A. (Winter 2012). Enhancing public health system financial performance through changes in MPH program content. Journal of Health Administration Education, 29(1):5-20. Honoré, P. A., Fos, P.J., Wang, X., Moonesinghe, R. (2011). The effects on population health status of using dedicated property taxes to fund local public health agencies. BioMed Central-Public Health,11:471 Honoré, P. A., Wright, D., Berwick, D. M., Clancy, C. M., Lee, P., Nowinski, J., Koh, H. K. (2011). Creating a framework for getting quality into the public health system. Health Affairs, 30(4):737-745 VanDevanter, N., Leviss, P., Abramson, D., Howard, J.M., Honoré, P. A. (2010). Emergency response in hurricane Katrina: What does it mean to be a public health emergency responder? Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 16(6):E16-E25. Van Wave, T. W., Scutchfield, F. D., & Honoré, P. A. (2010). Advances in public health systems research in the United States. Annual Review of Public Health, 31:283-295. Honoré, P. A., Fos, P. J., Smith, T., Riley, M., & Kramarz, K. (2010). Decision science: A scientific approach to enhance public health budgeting. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 16(2):98-103. Fulcher, R., Honoré, P. A., Kirkwood, B., & Riegelman, R. (2010). Ready for prime time: Ramping up public health education. Community College Journal. April/May 2010 Moonesinghe, R., Jones, W. J., Honoré, P. A., Truman, B., & Graham, G.(2009). Genomic medicine and racial/ethnic health disparities: Promises, perils, and the challenges for health care and public health policy. Ethnicity & Disease, 19(4):473-478. Honoré, P. A., Clarke, R. L., Mead, D. M., & Menditto, S. M. (2007). Creating financial transparency in public health: Examining best practices of system partners. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(2):121-129. Honoré, P. A., & Costich, J. F. (2009). Public health financial management competencies. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 15(4):311-318. Honoré, P. A., Gapenski, L. C., Morris, M. E., Fos, P. J., & Leon, J. (2010). Advancing public health finance: Closing 100-year gaps in education, training, and financial assessment methodologies. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Honoré, P. A., Simoes, E. J., Moonesinghe, R., Wang, X., & Brown, L. (2007). Evaluating the ecological association of casino industry economic development on community health status: A natural experiment in the Mississippi delta region. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(2):214-222. Honoré, P. A., Graham, G. N., Garcia, J., & Morris, W. (2008). A call to action: Public health and community college partnerships to educate the workforce and promote health equity. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 14: S82-S84. Graham, G. N., Honoré, P. A., & Beadle, M. (2008). Unique perspective on a common problem. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 14:S1-S2. Honoré, P. A., & Amy, B. W. (2007). Public health finance: Fundamental theories, concepts and definitions. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13, (2):89-92. Gans, D. N., Piland, N. F., & Honoré, P. A. (2007). Developing a chart of accounts: Historical perspective of the Medical Group Management Association. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(2):130-132. Griffin, S. O., Jones, K. A., Lockwood, S., Mosca, N. G., & Honoré, P. A. (2007). Impact of increasing dental reimbursement and implementing school sealant programs on sealant prevalence. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(2):202-208. Honoré, P. A, & Schlechte, T. (2007). State public health agency expenditure: Categorizing and comparing to performance levels. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(2):156-162. Jones, W. J., and Honoré, P. A. (2007. Business and public health partnerships: Policy and regulatory challenges and successes. Organizational Ethics, 4(1): 23-33. Honoré, P. A., & Amy, B.W. (2005). Public health finance: Advancing a field of study through public health systems research. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 11(6):571-573. Honoré, P. A., Simoes, E.J., Jones, W.J., Moonesinghe, R. (2004). Practices in Public Health Finance: An investigation of jurisdiction funding patterns and performance. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice,10(5):444-445. Honoré, P. A., Simoes, E. J., Moonesinghe, R., Kirbey, H. C., & Renner, M. (2004). Public health Finance: An investigation of jurisdiction funding patterns and performance capacity. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10(5):451-457. Mays, G., McHugh, M., Halverson, P., Shim, K., Perry, N., & Honoré, P. A. (2004). Getting what you pay for: How public health spending levels and sources influences the performance of essential public health Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10(5):435-442. Moulton, A. D., Halverson, P. K., Honoré, P. A., & Berkowitz, B. (2004). Public health finance: A conceptual framework. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 10(5):377-382.

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