Edward O'Neil is the principal investigator for the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program. He is Professor of Family and Community Medicine and Dental Public Health at the University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as the Director of the Center for the Health Professions, a research, advocacy and training institute created to assist health care professionals, health professions schools, care delivery organizations and public policymakers respond to the challenges of educating and managing a health care workforce capable of improving the health and well being of people and their communities.
The Center for the Health Professions houses a number of initiatives that are designed to understand and address the issues facing health care and health professionals. Dr. O’Neil is the Principal Investigator for the Pew Scholars and Latin American Fellows Programs in the Biomedical Sciences, the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program, the California Workforce Initiative and the CHCF Health Care Leadership Program, funded by the California HealthCare Foundation.
Dr. O'Neil served as the Executive Director of the Pew Health Professions Commission from 1989 through 1999; the Commission was a nationally recognized advocacy group focused on reform in health workforce issues. He has published numerous articles, chapters and books on this and other work. He is or has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, Government of New Zealand, Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Fetzer Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, California HealthCare Foundation as well as a number of federal, state and institutional agencies. He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Alabama and a Master’s of Public Administration and Doctorate in History from Syracuse University and an Honorary degree from New York Medical College.