 Bette Jacobs Main position/role: Professor of Health Systems Administration, Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA |
| Bette Jacobs is Professor of Health Systems Administration and Distinguished Scholar and Co-Founder of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University in Washington DC. She is a voting member of the Cherokee Nation, Wolf Clan. Dr Jacobs attended the University of Wyoming and graduated from California State University (BS, MS) and the University of Texas at Austin (PhD). Her career in public health and systems operations spans service, engineering, academic and non-governmental organizations. Prior to serving as Dean at Georgetown University, she was a vice-president at Honda of America Mfg. Dr. Jacobs is a noted scholar having had awards of more than $20 m sponsored research and projects and 50 publications. The courses she has designed include an Ignatius Seminar, Servicing the Common Good, and Environment and Indigenous Cultures. She is a board member for varied non-profit and private organizations, principal investigator for multiple projects including the Health Law Initiative, Global Faith Based Health Systems, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and Migration, Indigeneity and Gender and has been an advisor to programs such as Walking Forward in the Great Plains and campus construction in Mozambique. She is a Fellow at University of Oxford Campion Hall; a participant in the US War College master’s degree in leadership and has been an honorary commencement speaker at universities around the world. |
