Gillian Barclay, DDS, DrPH, is Vice President for Programsat the Aetna Foundation. In her role, she leads the development, execution andevaluation of the foundation’s national grant programs and cultivates newprojects within its three focus areas: reducing obesity, improving healthcare equity and promoting integrated health care. As part of herresponsibilities, she also is a frequent spokesperson for the foundation,presenting its work and the accomplishments of grantees to internal and externalconstituents.
Prior to joining the Aetna Foundation, Dr.Barclay was an advisor for the Regional Office of the World Health Organizationin the Office of Caribbean Program Coordination. There, she managed aportfolio of health initiatives in the region that focused special attention onthe impact of gender, human rights, integrated health systems and essentialpublic health functions on people’s access to quality health care. Previously, she was the evaluation manager, health programs for the W.K. KelloggFoundation, responsible for assessing the foundation’s health initiatives inthe areas of reducing health disparities, community and school-based healthcare, and oral health, among others.
Dr. Barclay has taught at the Harvard School of Public Health and HunterCollege at the City University of New York. She has published inpeer-reviewed health literature and has been a frequent presenter at healthconferences in the U.S. and around the world.
Dr. Barclay earned her doctorate of dental surgery at the University ofDetroit Mercy and completed her residency at New York Hospital MedicalCenter. She holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard Universityand a master’s of public health from the University of Michigan. Herundergraduate work was at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.