Madison McCarthy

Maddie McCarthy graduated from Brown University in 2024, with a concentration in Health and Human Biology and most recently, received her Master’s of Public Policy from the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar. While at Cambridge, she worked with the National Health Service to create policy options for expanding acute care services, such as urgent treatment centers and community-based care centers, targeted at high-intensity users of the emergency department. She also worked with the NHS to revise existing national quality metrics. She is interested in comparative health research, particularly between the United States and Europe, and creating information exchanges between the US and UK.

Previously, she worked with Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on the youth mental health crisis and other critical public health challenges. In the middle of her undergraduate education, she took a leave of absence to complete a yearlong position with the Department of Surgery at Stanford University where she worked on studies aiming to make surgery safer for frail patients. Prior to that, she completed research fellowships with Weill Cornell Medicine, the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health, and the Rhode Island General Assembly. She also serves as an appointed member of the Rhode Island Hospital Ethics Committee. When not thinking about these things, she enjoys long-distance running, ski touring, non-fiction science books, and swimming with her Portuguese water dog, Rio.

Department: Public Health