2024 UHF Gala Journal - Flipbook - Page 10
Health Care Leadership Award
Margaret Crotty and Rory Riggs
For their important work at the intersection of
health care, public health, and biotechnology
“We are only as healthy as the least healthy among us.”
This ethos is always top of mind for Margaret Crotty and has been a driving force
during her 30-year career as an influential leader in education, humanitarian aid and
development, technology, and public health.
In her most recent role as the CEO and president of JSI, one of the largest international
non-governmental organizations, she oversees more than 4,700 staff in over 40
countries to advance health supply chain programs, data and digital transformation,
global health security, maternal and child health, and infectious disease control.
“My role,” she says, “has hopefully always been to listen to the people on the front
lines, and then make sure they have what they need to make this impact. Often this
includes access to data and power to make decisions.”
Margaret has been doing just that at JSI, as she did in her previous roles as CEO of
the New York City-based Partnership with Children, which provides community
health and school-based behavioral health services across the city; as president
and CEO of AFS-USA Intercultural Programs; and at Save the Children, where she
launched and led the organization’s flagship $2 billion initiative to reduce global
child and maternal mortality.
Now, she’s also supporting front-line workers as the chair of the Northwell Health
Board of Trustees. “The patient experience depends not just on excellent science
and clinical expertise, but also on the collaboration of every team member who
works for the health system.”
At Northwell, New York state’s largest employer and its largest health care system,
supporting the front lines is a key priority.
And Margaret thinks about redefining what the front lines are.
