Core Faculty
Eugene Washington, MD, MPH, MSc
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Degrees
MD, University of California, San Francisco
MPH, University of California, Berkeley
MSc, Harvard University
BS, Howard University
Focus Areas
Climate Action and Human Health
Biography
Dr. Eugene Washington is Chancellor Emeritus at Duke University and is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the School of Medicine. Most recently, Washington was the Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University, where he also served as President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. His current academic work focuses on climate action to promote human health. One study Washington is conducting with Duke-Margolis colleagues seeks to strengthen the connection between care delivery models (particularly value-based care) and sustainability, with an aim of demonstrating that providers (individuals and health systems) can improve patient care outcomes while also reducing the impact of care on the environment.
Over the past three decades, Dr. Washington has been a national leader in assessing medical technologies, developing clinical practice guidelines, and establishing disease prevention policies, particularly in women’s health. His research and numerous publications have greatly impacted the practice of medicine in prenatal genetic testing, cervical cancer screening and prevention, noncancerous uterine conditions management, and reproduction-related infections. Washington’s executive leadership at three prominent academic health systems (AHSs) has inspired AHSs to adopt public health principles as core to their mission.
Just prior to Duke, Dr. Washington served as Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences, Dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Chief Executive Officer of the UCLA Health System. At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), he served as Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. Before joining the faculty at UCSF, Washington was an epidemiologist and clinical investigator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
Dr. Washington has also impacted the national health and healthcare agenda through his thought leadership. He chaired the Boards of Directors of both the California HealthCare Foundation and The California Wellness Foundation, served on the Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and was a director of Johnson and Johnson. He is founding Chair of the Board of Governors of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), a national research organization authorized by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Washington currently is a Director of Risant Health and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.
