Leslie D. Mancuso, PhD, RN, FAAN
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Leslie Mancuso is the President and CEO of Jhpiego, an international non-profit health organization affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Dr. Mancuso offers a rare blend of experience within the world of international public health: a nurse, with years of experience in clinical settings and academia, she is a recognized international business leader with a track record of success for bringing accountability and navigating change in the international nonprofit world. Dr. Mancuso has worked for over 20 years developing public/private partnerships to help improve the health of women and families.
Following a 13 year career with Project HOPE serving as their COO and then CEO, Dr. Mancuso came to Jhpiego in 2002. Under her leadership, Jhpiego grew from a $5 to $62 million organization, increasing its programs from four to 70 and serving the needs of over 55 countries today.
Dr. Mancuso oversees Jhpiego’s longstanding and extensive relations with international agencies, ministries of health and education, nursing, midwifery and medical schools, professional associations and local non-governmental organizations.
Dr. Mancuso’s academic credentials are strong: she received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Southern Connecticut University, a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and a doctoral degree in organizational leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed the Executive Leadership Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to round out her understanding to the business of health care at the intersections of government, business and public policy.
Through her career in international public health, she was able to combine her love of nursing—the ability to look at problems and issues within a greater context, as nurses are routinely required to do in patient care—with her natural aptitude for business management and organizational change, to develop into a nurse-executive.
Dr. Mancuso also has an active leadership role in many organizations serving on the boards of US-ASEAN Business Council, Inc., Corporate Council on Africa, U.S./South African Business Council, Goodwill Industries International, Inc., the World Trade Center Institute, Asia Pacific Economic Corporation’s Life Sciences Innovation Forum, the Advisory Council of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, and the Business Advisory Board of the Malaria Foundation.
Dr. Mancuso is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and The American Society of Association Executives & The Center for Association Leadership. She has received numerous honors, including the Archon Award, Honor Society of Nursing, the Lilian Sholtis Brunner Award for Innovative Practice in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award for 2008 by the Daily Record, and the Maryland International Business Leadership Award from the World Trade Center Institute. Dr. Mancuso received an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Shenandoah University.
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