2026 Gerald Bloom: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	36	6447	5993	1040	967	121	6523

Overview

Gerald Bloom is affiliated with the Institute of Development Studies in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, focusing on various subfields including Finance, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics covered in their work include Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Global Maternal and Child Health, Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Antibiotic Use and Resistance, and COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Gerald Bloom feature a range of public health and healthcare system topics. These include:

The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics-how and why? (2020), published in BMJ Global Health
Digital Health and Inequalities in Access to Health Services in Bangladesh: Mixed Methods Study (2020), JMIR mhealth and uhealth
Understanding China's growing involvement in global health and managing processes of change (2020), Globalization and Health
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Diverse Contexts; Different Epidemics-How and Why? (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
Building policy capacity for managing rapid, complex change in China's health system (2021), Policy and Society

Gerald Bloom collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Lewis Husain, Wim Van Damme, Ritwik Dahake, Brecht Ingelbeen, and Edwin Wouters. These collaborations are reflected in their publications across multiple research themes.

The publication venues where Gerald Bloom's work appears most frequently include BMJ Global Health, Policy and Society, Health Policy and Planning, JMIR mhealth and uhealth, and Globalization and Health.

Best Publications

Poverty and access to health care in developing countries.

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

1873
Citations
Markets, information asymmetry and health care: towards new social contracts.

Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing;Robert Lloyd

319
Citations
Health sector reform: lessons from China.

Gerald Bloom;Gu Xingyuan

250
Citations
Impact of user charges on vulnerable groups: The case of Kibwezi in rural Kenya

J.Karanja Mbugua;Gerald H. Bloom;Malcolm M. Segall

206
Citations
Understanding Governance: pathways to sustainability

Melissa Leach;Gerald Bloom;Adrian Ely;Paul Nightingale

200
Citations
Making health markets work better for poor people: the case of informal providers

Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing;Henry Lucas;Abbas Bhuiya

196
Citations
The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics-how and why?

Wim Van Damme;Ritwik Dahake;Alexandre Delamou;Brecht Ingelbeen

183
Citations
Cooperative medical schemes in contemporary rural China.

Feng Xueshan;Tang Shenglan;Gerald Bloom;Malcolm Segall

160
Citations
Stakeholder analysis for health research: Case studies from low- and middle-income countries

A.A. Hyder;S. Syed;P. Puvanachandra;G. Bloom

134
Citations
Editorial: Iatrogenic poverty

Bruno Meessen;Zhang Zhenzhong;Wim Van Damme;Narayanan Devadasan

129
Citations
Informal rural healthcare providers in North and South India

Meenakshi Gautham;K M Shyamprasad;Rajesh Singh;Anshi Zachariah

128
Citations
Future health systems: Why future? Why now?

Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing

121
Citations
Decentralizing rural health services: a case study in China.

Shenglan Tang;Gerald Bloom

118
Citations
Pluralism and marketisation in the health sector : meeting health needs in contexts of social change in low and middle-income countries

Gerald Bloom;Hilary Standing

115
Citations
Building institutions for an effective health system: Lessons from China’s experience with rural health reform

Gerald Bloom

108
Citations
How Health Workers Earn a Living in China

Gerald Bloom;Leiya Han;Xiang Li

104
Citations
Antimicrobial resistance and universal health coverage.

Gerald Bloom;Gerald Bloom;Gemma Buckland Merrett;Annie Wilkinson;Annie Wilkinson;Vivian Lin

103
Citations
Primary health care meets the market in China and Vietnam.

Gerald Bloom

100
Citations
Financing health care in rural China: preliminary report of a nationwide study.

Gu Xingyuan;Gerald Bloom;Tang Shenglan;Zhu Yingya

93
Citations
Exploring health systems research and its influence on policy processes in low income countries

Adnan A Hyder;Gerald Bloom;Melissa Leach;Shamsuzzoha B Syed

88
Citations
Equity in health in unequal societies: meeting health needs in contexts of social change

Gerald Bloom

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David H. Peters Johns Hopkins University

Abbas Bhuiya International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research

Melissa Leach Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI)

George Pariyo Johns Hopkins University

Wim Van Damme Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Spencer Henson University of Guelph

Shenglan Tang Duke University

Ian Scoones University of Sussex

Helmut Kloos University of California, San Francisco

Adrian Smith University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Gerald Bloom Google Scholar page

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