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David H. Peters is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Health Professions, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a significant focus on several subfields including General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The topics of work cover areas such as Global Maternal and Child Health, Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Health Policy Implementation Science, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Primary Care and Health Outcomes.

David H. Peters has contributed to numerous publications across various venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • BMJ Global Health
  • Health Policy and Planning
  • Health Systems & Reform
  • BMJ
  • The Lancet

Recent representative papers include:

  • Associations of physician burnout with career engagement and quality of patient care: systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, BMJ
  • Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in the COVID-19 response, 2020, The Lancet
  • HIT-COVID, a global database tracking public health interventions to COVID-19, 2020, Scientific Data
  • The need for COVID-19 research in low- and middle-income countries, 2020, Global Health Research and Policy
  • The effectiveness of training strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries, 2021, BMJ Global Health

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Sara Bennett, Abdul Ghaffar, Brian Wahl, Sudip Bhandari, and Zubin Cyrus Shroff.

Best Publications

  • Poverty and access to health care in developing countries.

    David H. Peters;Anu Garg;Gerry Bloom;Damian G. Walker

  • Implementation research: what it is and how to do it

    David H Peters;Taghreed Adam;Olakunle Alonge;Irene Akua Agyepong

  • The application of systems thinking in health: Why use systems thinking?

    David Peters

  • Implementation Research in Health: A Practical Guide

    David H. Peters;Nhan T. Tran;Taghreed Adam

  • Understanding pathways for scaling up health services through the lens of complex adaptive systems

    Ligia Paina;David H Peters

  • Better Health Systems for India's Poor: Findings, Analysis, and Options

    David H. Peters;Abdo S. Yazbeck;Rashmi R. Sharma;G. N. V. Ramana

  • Framework for assessing governance of the health system in developing countries: Gateway to good governance

    Sameen Siddiqi;Tayyeb I. Masud;Sania Nishtar;David H. Peters

  • Implementation research: new imperatives and opportunities in global health.

    Sally Theobald;Neal Brandes;Margaret Gyapong;Sameh El-Saharty

  • Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

    Alexander K Rowe;Samantha Y Rowe;David H Peters;Kathleen A Holloway

  • Prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in the COVID-19 response.

    Hans Henri P Kluge;Kremlin Wickramasinghe;Holly L Rippin;Romeu Mendes

  • Towards patient-centered health services in India--a scale to measure patient perceptions of quality.

    Krishna Dipankar Rao;David H. Peters;Karen Bandeen-Roche

  • Tackling socioeconomic inequalities and non-communicable diseases in low-income and middle-income countries under the Sustainable Development agenda.

    Louis W Niessen;Louis W Niessen;Diwakar Mohan;Jonathan K Akuoku;Andrew J Mirelman

  • Access to and utilisation of health services for the poor in Uganda: a systematic review of available evidence

    S.N. Kiwanuka;E.K. Ekirapa;S. Peterson;S. Peterson;O. Okui

  • Job satisfaction and motivation of health workers in public and private sectors: cross-sectional analysis from two Indian states

    David H Peters;Subrata Chakraborty;Prasanta Mahapatra;Laura Steinhardt

  • Community-based approaches and partnerships: innovations in health-service delivery in Bangladesh.

    Shams El Arifeen;Aliki Christou;Laura Reichenbach;Ferdous Arfina Osman

  • Regular use of alcohol and tobacco in India and its association with age, gender, and poverty.

    K.J. Neufeld;D.H. Peters;M. Rani;S. Bonu

  • The determinants of use of maternal and child health services in Metro Cebu, the Philippines*

    Stan Becker;David H. Peters;Ronald H. Gray;Connie Gultiano

  • A balanced scorecard for health services in Afghanistan

    David H Peters;Ayan Ahmed Noor;Lakhwinder P Singh;Faizullah K Kakar

  • Making health markets work better for poor people: the case of informal providers

    Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing;Henry Lucas;Abbas Bhuiya

  • Patient satisfaction with services in outpatient clinics at Mulago hospital, Uganda.

    Juliet Nabbuye-Sekandi;Fredrick E. Makumbi;Arabat Kasangaki;Irene Betty Kizza

  • Improving health service delivery in developing countries : from evidence to action

    David H. Peters;Sameh El-Saharty;Banafsheh Siadat;Katja Janovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald Bloom
Gerald Bloom Institute of Development Studies
Gilbert Burnham
Gilbert Burnham Johns Hopkins University
Sara Bennett
Sara Bennett Johns Hopkins University
Asha George
Asha George University of the Western Cape
George Pariyo
George Pariyo Johns Hopkins University
David M. Bishai
David M. Bishai Johns Hopkins University
Louis W. Niessen
Louis W. Niessen Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Abbas Bhuiya
Abbas Bhuiya International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
Dina Balabanova
Dina Balabanova London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Mark Jit
Mark Jit New York University

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