Associate Professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Director, Community Systems Science, Michael Fischer Child Health Equity Center; Principal Steward, SAFE Learning Network

Carley Riley, MD, MPP, MHS, is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and an Attending Physician in Critical Care, Director of Community Systems in the Michael Fisher Child Health Equity Center, and Director of the Mayerson Child Well-being Initiative at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Riley has also been the primary steward for the System to Achieve Food Equity (SAFE) Learning Network in Cincinnati, OH. Her long-term goal is to foster optimal and equitable health and well-being for people and places. She envisions achieving this goal by co-creating interventions within cross-sector, community-led collaborations that promote collective health and well-being. She has expertise in well-being, the social influences of health and well-being, co-production and participatory methods, community organizing and cross-sector collaboration, and community-based systems science.

Dr. Riley co-leads the All Children Thrive Learning Network Cincinnati, the Cincinnati-NYU-Yale-Gallup Well-being Research Team, and CollectiveWELL. She previously co-led the Institute for Healthcare Improvement 100 Million Healthier Lives measurement team, and she currently serves as faculty for the Center for Quality Improvement & Innovation and IHI initiative to improve the quality of life of people with HIV. Additionally, Dr. Riley enjoys caring for patients and teaching medical students, residents, and fellows as a pediatric ICU physician.

Dr. Riley received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Medical Doctorate from Northwestern University, a Master of Public Policy from UCLA, and a Master of Health Science from Yale University. She completed General Pediatric Residency and Chief Residency at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Dr. Riley was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at Yale University from 2013-2015 and is currently a Fellow with The Nova Institute for Health.