The Authors
Bernard J. Healey is a professor of health care administration at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and is currently the director of the King's College graduate program in health care administration. He began his career in 1971 as an epidemiologist for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, retiring from that position in 1995. During his tenure with the government he completed advanced degrees in business administration and public administration, and in 1990 he finished his doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Healey has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in business, public health, and health care administration at several colleges since 1974.
Dr. Healey has published over one hundred articles about public health, health policy, leadership, marketing, and health care partnerships. He has also written and published two books, one about health promotion and one about occupational safety and health in public health practice.
Dr. Healey is a member of the American Association of Public Health and the Association of University Programs in Health Care Administration. He is also a part-time consultant in epidemiology for the Wilkes-Barre City Health Department and a consultant for numerous public health projects in Pennsylvania.
Cheryll D. Lesneski teaches courses in public health practice and community health improvement as an assistant professor in the Public Health Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gillings School of Global Public Health. She also works for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, promoting sound financial management of public health organizations within a continuous quality improvement framework. In 2005 Dr. Lesneski received a doctorate in public health in the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the Gillings School. Her dissertation, Developing Performance Measurement Systems for Local Public Health Agencies Using the Balanced Scorecard, was published by VDM in 2009. Dr. Lesneski has been a public health practitioner for over twenty years, serving as a local public health agency director for ten years in the Florida Department of Health. She continues to work with the Florida Department of Health to promote continuous quality improvement techniques in learning collaborative settings. Dr. Lesneski also served as an improvement adviser and evaluator with the North Carolina Center for Children's Healthcare Improvement and the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality.