Joyce A. Murphy, M.P.A.

Joyce Murphy's role includes managing the day-to-day operations of Commonwealth Medicine, a division within the University of Massachusetts Medical School devoted to assisting state agencies to improve health care services delivered to vulnerable populations.  She oversees the operations of a broad range of clinical and service-delivery programs the organization operates, as well as provides leadership and direction for Commonwealth Medicine departments including finance, contracts and credentialing, workforce development, business development and project management. In addition, she is instrumental in identifying growth opportunities for new program development.

Prior to joining Commonwealth Medicine in early 2006, Ms. Murphy served as President of Caritas Carney Hospital, a community teaching hospital, for nine years. In addition, she served as Senior Vice President of Government Relations for the Caritas Christi Health Care System. She was Vice President of St. Margaret's Hospital for Women, and created the vision, business plan and financial viability to redevelop the campus and establish a successor corporation, St. Mary's Women and Children's Center, to the inpatient hospital, where she served as president.  As a result of her work at Caritas, in 2005 she received the Massachusetts Hospital Association's William L. Lane Hospital Advocate Award, which recognizes a hospital executive's outstanding efforts to advocate on behalf of their hospital, their commitment to their institution's mission, and the impact of their work on the health care community.

Ms. Murphy began her professional career in the Massachusetts Department of Correction where she held various roles over the span of eleven years, culminating in that of Superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Framingham, the sole women's state prison. She also served as First Deputy Commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.  As a result of her experience at the Department of Correction, in 2003 Governor Mitt Romney appointed Ms. Murphy to the 15-member Governor's Commission on Correction Reform, which made recommendations for policy, procedural and practice reforms, and the subsequent 12-member Council on Correction Reform, to oversee implementation of those reforms.

Ms. Murphy is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Boston with a bachelor's degree in Law Enforcement. She received her master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government where she was awarded the Bradford Fellowship for “excellence in public service.”  She also received a Doctorate of Public Administration, Honoris Causa, from Curry College.