Catherine Kelleher, ScD, M.P.H., M.S., R.N.
Associate Professor,
Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health
University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing
Affiliate, Center for Research on Aging
Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Gerontology PhD Program

Catherine Kelleher received a B.S.N. in nursing from Georgetown University School of Nursing, an M.S. in psychiatric nursing from the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, an M.P.H. from the Department of Health Services Administration of the Harvard School of Public Health, and an Sc.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

She is a policy oriented health services researcher with a particular emphasis in the past 10 years on home health and home care, including testing the impact of clinical pathways on patient and cost outcomes, and development of peer advisor disease management programs to improve health status of home care workers. Currently, she is principal investigator of a 4-year Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funded randomized intervention trial testing impact of expanding the role of traditional home health aides to function as congestive heart failure and diabetes disease management coaches. Targeted outcomes include reduced patient hospitalizations and ER visits, increased home health aide job satisfaction and retention, and decreased costs of home health care episodes via more efficient and effective use of home health aides and nurses, both of which are in short supply.

She has been a consultant and grant reviewer for the United Hospital Fund of New York, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several federal government agencies including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Health Resources Services Administration, and the Veterans Administration. She also has served in leadership roles in national organizations. She established and chaired the M.P.H.-M.S.N. Joint Degree Program Task Force of the Public Health Nursing Section of the American Public Health Association, and chaired the Education Committee of the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators during a period when the organization’s standards for undergraduate and masters education in community/public health nursing were revised and published.