Who We Are: SSDS and Its Staff

Maggie Huff-Rousselle, B.A., M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Huff-Rousselle is the founder and President of SSDS. She has over 25 years of consulting, teaching and research in international health, including eight overseas residencies and roughly 100 short term consultancies in nearly 50 countries. Her experience includes policy, financing, and management issues in the health sector, with emphasis on macro and micro health sector financing, health and social marketing, non-governmental institutional development, and pharmaceutical sector financing and management.

In terms of practical implementation experience, she has directed multi-country technical assistance projects in health sector reform and financing, and in pharmaceutical management and financing. In long-term positions in Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, she has been responsible for the establishment or development of five indigenous organizations (working in pharmaceutical supply, reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, or taining and research) and her doctoral research considered the effects of foreign aid on indigenous health sector organizations. Her research interests combine qualitative research (focus groups, case studies, stakeholder consultation, etc.) with financial and marketing analysis (costing, break-even analysis, incentives analysis, pricing, etc.).

Dr. Huff-Rousselle is currently on the governing council of APHA, and has current or former faculty appointments at Boston University, Harvard University, Tulane University, and Keele University (England) where she teaches graduate courses on health and social marketing, financial management and planning, and global pharmaceutical issues. She has developed a series of teaching case studies used in graduate programs; published over 50 articles and case studies on health sector issues in national and regional newspapers, professional magazines, and peer-reviewed journals; served as a reviewer of abstracts for APHA and Global Health Council, and as a referee of manuscripts for Health Policy and Planning, and the International Journal of Health Planning and Management. She has an M.A. from Goddard College, an M.B.A. from Boston University with dual certificates in Health Systems and in Public Management, and a Ph.D. in Management Studies from the University of the West Indies.

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