Joan Higgins
Dame Joan Margaret Higgins, DBE FAcSS is a British academic and educator.
Higgins graduated in social administration from the University of York in 1971 and has held academic posts at the University of Portsmouth, University of Southampton and University of Manchester (where she was professor of health policy, from 1992, and director of the Manchester Centre for Healthcare Management 1998-2004. From 2002-03 she was president of the European Health Management Association.Positions
In 2007, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
