Harkness Project Title: Complex Chronic Conditions: Patient Pathways, Processes and Engagement

Placement: University of Chicago

Mentor: Marshall Chin, University of Chicago 

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Sarah Derrett, Ph.D., a 2011-12 New Zealand Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, was deputy director of and is senior research fellow at the Injury Prevention Research Unit in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago. She has also been a member of the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease Injury Working Groups since 2008, and from 2007-10, she was a member of the New Zealand Ministry of Health Lower South Regional Ethics Committee. Previously, she was director of the M.B.A. (health executive) program at the Centre for Health and Planning and Management at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Derrett has 23 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as New Zealand Medical Journal, Injury Prevention, and International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. She holds a Ph.D. in public health and an M.P.H. from the University of Otago, and also holds a diploma in comprehensive nursing from the Otago Polytechnic School of Nursing.

Current Position: Senior Research Fellow at the Injury Prevention Research Unit in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago.

Email: sarah.derrett@otago.ac.nz