Dr Ted Adams (HF 2014-15 ) 2010s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care
MBChB MSc MRCOG FFFMLM undertook his fellowship at Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute in Oakland, California. As an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Ted spent the year fully involved with the policy and improvement teams at Kaiser Permanente, translating some policy from the Affordable Care Act into measurable clinical policies and examining “joy in work” for clinicians. The Harkness project was centred around patient-centred care in maternity services. Ted wanted to put his learning into practice and maintained his clinical and operational focus on his return to the UK. He was inspired by the effort Kaiser Permanente put into its electronic health system and is now the Chief Clinical Information Officer at his NHS trust in the North West of England. In addition to his NHS role, he works for Kaleidoscope Health and Care where he can indulge his love of practical health policy. He is also a trustee of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and Chief Medical Officer of the UK’s Pony Club.
Last updated: 25th May 2018
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Dr Matthew Harris (HF 2014-15 ) 2010s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care, Higher Education
was at New York University mentored by Prof James Macinko (UCLA) and Dr Don Goldman (IHI). Looking at the barriers and challenges to Reverse Innovation (adopting low cost solutions from low-income countries), he published several studies during that year, including a national study in the US on whether researchers rate research from low-income countries worse than from high-income countries, an Implicit Association Test study to assess the unconscious biases against low-income country research, and two qualitative studies exploring barriers and challenges to Reverse Innovation according to US policy makers’ experiences. Before the Harkness Fellowship, Matthew worked in global public health and research and for several years as a Primary Care physician in Brazil, as a WHO Polio Consultant in Ethiopia and as an HIV Technical Consultant in Mozambique. Matt now leads a research programme on Reverse Innovation at Imperial College London, including the publication of dozens of exemplar low-cost solutions from low-income countries that could be used in the UK NHS and a randomised controlled within-individual cross-over design study that definitively showed how UK clinicians discount research from low-income countries purely because of where the research is from. His work translating the Brazilian Community Health Worker role into the UK NHS led to pilots across England, recently cited as a Best Practice case study in the NHS Ten Year Plan, 2025. Matt was awarded an NHS National Clinical Impact Award in 2024. He has published ‘Decolonising Healthcare Innovation: low-cost solutions from low-income countries’ and ‘The Oxford Handbook of Healthcare Innovation’.
Last updated: 25th June 2026
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Maddy Phipps-Taylor (HF 2014-15) 2010s, All Harkness Stories, Economics, Finance & Business, Health & Social Care, Politics & Public Services
applied to the Harkness Fellowship programme while working as a Senior Policy Advisor to PM David Cameron at No 10 Downing Street. She had, at that point, experience as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and a Civil Servant following an education in Engineering at Oxford. For her Fellowship she was based at UC Berkley in California, researching Accountable Care Organisations (a new healthcare delivery model launched as part of ‘Obamacare’). She travelled the length and breadth of the USA, covering 22 States often with her husband Matt. Her research was published in the Milbank Quarterly, New England Journal of Medicine and Health Affairs. On return to the UK she transitioned into Healthcare Software and now is the Director of Strategy at Allocate Software – the world’s leading healthcare workforce management software provider.
Last updated: 26th May 2018
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Margje (Marthe) Haverkamp (HF 2015-16) 2010s, All Harkness Stories, Health & Social Care
was a 2015 Dutch Harkness Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she worked on value-based care and cost-reduction strategies. Following her fellowship, Marthe helped pharma start-up companies develop their novel therapeutic products. Since 2019, Marthe has been a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal’s Healthcare Industry Group (HIG) in New York, where she works with academic medical centers, physician practices and community-based organizations on strategy, physician governance, and operational efficiencies. She draws from more than 20 years of experience throughout the healthcare sector in the U.S. and internationally. Marthe started her career as an Infectious Disease specialist in the Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands with a scholarship of the European Society of Immunodeficiencies (ESID). Along with her clinical work, she served as a supporting member of the Council for Public Health and Healthcare (RVZ). Marthe earned a M.D. from the University of Utrecht and a Ph.D. in immunogenetics from the University of Leiden with a clinical research grant of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). She performed part of her Ph.D. at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on a Fulbright Fellowship and has participated in executive leadership courses at HBS and INSEAD as a Leadership Foundation Fellow of the International Women’s Forum (IWF). She has published close to 40 articles, mostly peer reviewed. Dr. Haverkamp is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), and an Associate Faculty Member of the Ariadne Labs
Last updated: 19th November 2024
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