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Peter Berman is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research covers multiple fields including Health Professions, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Medicine. Within these fields, Berman has published extensively on topics such as Healthcare Systems and Reforms, Global Maternal and Child Health, Disaster Response and Management, Healthcare Policy and Management, Public Health Policies and Education, Health Policy Implementation Science, and Global Health Care Issues.

Berman's work frequently appears in prominent publication venues. These include Research Square, BMC Health Services Research, Health Research Policy and Systems, Health Policy and Planning, and the World Scientific series in global healthcare economics and public policy.

Several recent papers reflect the scope and focus of Berman's research interests:

  • Patient volume and quality of primary care in Ethiopia: findings from the routine health information system and the 2014 Service Provision Assessment survey (2021), published in BMC Health Services Research
  • Improving the response to future pandemics requires an improved understanding of the role played by institutions, politics, organization, and governance (2023), published in PLOS Global Public Health
  • Investigating the influence of institutions, politics, organizations, and governance on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia, Canada: a jurisdictional case study protocol (2022), published in Health Research Policy and Systems
  • Equitable Distribution of Poor Quality of Care? Equity in Quality of Reproductive Health Services in Ethiopia (2022), published in Health Systems & Reform
  • The role of health system context in the design and implementation of performance-based financing: evidence from Cote d'Ivoire (2020), published in BMJ Global Health

Berman collaborates regularly with a group of frequent coauthors. These include Candice Ruck, Laura Jane Brubacher, Shelly Keidar, Chris Y. Lovato, and Girmaye Dinsa.

Their contributions extend to book publications, notably with World Scientific, where Berman is credited with multiple editions of Effective Pandemic Response: Linking Evidence, Intervention, Politics, Organization, and Governance (2024).

Best Publications

  • Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000-10): taking stock of maternal, newborn, and child survival.

    Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta;Mickey Chopra;Henrik Axelson;Peter Berman

  • Countdown to 2015: a decade of tracking progress for maternal, newborn, and child survival.

    Cesar G Victora;Jennifer Harris Requejo;Aluisio J D Barros;Peter Berman

  • The impoverishing effect of healthcare payments in India: new methodology and findings.

    Peter Berman;Rajeev Ahuja;Laveesh Bhandari

  • Health sector reform: making health development sustainable

    Peter Berman

  • The household production of health: integrating social science perspectives on micro-level health determinants.

    Peter Berman;Carl Kendall;Karabi Bhattacharyya

  • RETAIL PHARMACIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: A BEHAVIOR AND INTERVENTION FRAMEWORK*

    P Goel;D Ross-Degnan;P Berman;S Soumerai

  • Community-based health workers: Head start or false start towards health for all?

    Peter A. Berman;Davidson R. Gwatkin;Susan E. Burger

  • Getting Health Reform Right

    Marc Roberts;William Hsiao;Peter Berman;Michael Reich

  • Countdown to 2015 and beyond: fulfilling the health agenda for women and children

    Jennifer H arris Requejo;Jennifer Bryce;Aluisio J D Barros;Peter Berman

  • Private health care provision in developing countries: a preliminary analysis of levels and composition.

    Kara Hanson;Peter Berman

  • Rethinking health care systems: Private health care provision in India

    Peter A. Berman

  • Targeted health insurance in a low income country and its impact on access and equity in access: Egypt's school health insurance

    Winnie Yip;Peter Berman

  • DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF ASCITES ADENOSINE DEAMINASE IN TUBERCULOUS PERITONITIS

    MichaelD. Voigt;Charles Trey;Carl Lombard;Isaac Kalvaria

  • Household utilization and expenditure on private and public health services in Vietnam.

    Nguyen Thi Hong Ha;Peter Berman;Ulla Larsen

  • Artemisinin Enhances Heme-Catalysed Oxidation of Lipid Membranes

    Peter A Berman;Paul A Adams

  • So many, yet few: Human resources for health in India

    Krishna D Rao;Aarushi Bhatnagar;Peter A. Berman

  • National health accounts in developing countries: appropriate methods and recent applications.

    Peter A. Berman

  • How Ethiopia achieved Millennium Development Goal 4 through multisectoral interventions: a Countdown to 2015 case study.

    Jenny Ruducha;Carlyn Mann;Neha S Singh;Tsegaye D Gemebo

  • The role of private providers in maternal and child health and family planning services in developing countries

    Peter Berman;Laura Rose

  • Informal payments in the health sector: a case study from Turkey.

    Mehtap Tatar;Hacer Özgen;Bayram Sahin;Paolo Belli

Frequent Co-Authors

William C. Hsiao
William C. Hsiao Harvard University
Joy E Lawn
Joy E Lawn London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Winnie Yip
Winnie Yip Harvard University
Leslie A. Curry
Leslie A. Curry Yale University
Mickey Chopra
Mickey Chopra World Bank
Aluísio J. D. Barros
Aluísio J. D. Barros Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Anne Mills
Anne Mills London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Qingyue Meng
Qingyue Meng Peking University
Kara Hanson
Kara Hanson London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Howard S. Friedman
Howard S. Friedman University of California, Riverside

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