Paul D. Cleary

Ph.D. is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the Yale School of Public Health.

Paul D. Cleary, Ph.D. is the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at the Yale School of Public Health. His research focuses on the quality of medical care, how clinician and organizational characteristics are related to care quality, and the implementation and impact of quality improvement efforts. He is Principal Investigator of a CAHPS (Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provider and Systems) project funded by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and from 2006 through 2020 was Director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA). He has published more than 350 journal articles and book chapters. Dr. Cleary is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, a member of the Connecticut Academy for Science and Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science, and a distinguished fellow of the Association for Health Services Research. He has received the Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, the Picker Institute Award for Excellence in the
Advancement of Patient-Centered Care, and the Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contribution to Medical Sociology from the American Sociological Association. Dr. Cleary is on the Board of the Milbank Memorial Fund.