Usher Institute Annual Lecture & Showcase 2025

We are delighted to welcome Dr David Nash, Founding Dean Emeritus, Thomas Jefferson University, USA to deliver this year's keynote lecture Post pandemic population health in the USA and beyond.

The keynote lecture will be complemented by a showcase of work from across the Usher Institute.

The event is free to attend however we do require you to complete the short registration form.

11.00Registration and Usher Institute Showcase opens
12.00Lunch and Usher Institute Showcase
13.00Welcome | Professor Cathie Sudlow
13.10

Usher presentations | Chaired by Professor Linda Bauld

Backlogs, bottlenecks, and the uneven road to recovery: What NHS data reveals post-pandemic | Dr Ahmar Shah

Abortion care after Covid-19: Co-designing post-abortion contraception to address inequalities | Dr Nicola Boydell 

A long way from home: The impact of Covid-19 policies on refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland - a systematic review | Dr Gwenetta Curry 

Long Covid - breathless, exhausted, and life redefined: Evidence from national Long Covid studies | Dr Luke Daines

13.40Q&A session with Usher presenters | Chaired by Professor Linda Bauld
13.50Introduction to keynote speaker | Professor Julie Jacko
13.55

Keynote presentation | Chaired by Professor Julie Jacko

‘Post pandemic population health in the USA and beyond’ | Dr David B. Nash

14.40Q&A session with keynote speaker | Chaired by Professor Julie Jacko
14.50Vote of thanks and closing comments | Professor Cathie Sudlow
15.00Refreshments & Usher Institute Showcase
16.00Close

David B. Nash, MD, MBA is a board-certified internist who is the Founding Dean Emeritus of the Jefferson College of Population Health (JCPH) on the campus of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He remains on the full-time faculty at JCPH as the Dr Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy and Medicine.

David is celebrating his 35th anniversary on the faculty and is best known for two major career contributions as one of the founders of both the movement to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, and to herald the advent of population health. 

David is the editor of the best-selling textbooks in both quality of care, and population health, and remains as the editor in chief of two scholarly journals including the American Journal of Medical Quality (AJMQ) and Population Health Management (PHM). He has authored more than 100 peer reviewed articles and edited or written 25 books. His most recent book, How Covid Crashed the System: A Guide to Fixing American Health Care, is now in its third printing since publication in 2022.

David has received many national and international awards, he has received three honorary degrees, and lectured in more than a dozen countries around the world. 

He is an expert in both for profit and not for profit governance with 20 years of service as a hospital trustee (in two different systems) and ten years on the board of Humana.

He has been married for 45 years to Dr Esther J. Nash and they have three grown children and three grandchildren.


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Photograph of Dr David B. Nash, guest speaker at the Usher Institute's Annual Lecture and Showcase 2025