Dr. Veena Raleigh
Senior Fellow, Policy
The King's Fund
Veena is an epidemiologist with extensive research experience and publications in public health, health inequalities, quality and safety, and patient experience. She joined the King's Fund in April 2009, having spent 8 years at the Commission for Health Improvement and then the Healthcare Commission as a Fellow in Information Policy, working on information policy, analysis and research issues, and leading on analyses of eg patient experience data, safety indicators and inequalities.
Prior to that she was a Reader at the Postgraduate Medical School,
University of Surrey, and coordinated the production of indicator sets
(such as the Compendium of Clinical and Health Outcome Indicators) for
the Department of Health (DH). She is a member of several national
committees: DH’s Scientific Reference Group on Health Inequalities, the
health inequalities review led by Professor Michael Marmot, DH's expert
group on international quality comparisons, and was also on DH’s Expert
Reference Group for the Diabetes NSF. She was awarded a Fellowship of
the Faculty of Public Health in 2005, and a Fellowship of the Royal
Society of Medicine in 2007. Veena has worked on health and population
issues in Third World countries for international agencies (Department
for International Development, the World Bank, UNFPA and the Ford
Foundation). Veena has an undergraduate degree in economics from
Cambridge University, and an MSc and PhD in epidemiology and demography
from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
