Peter Berman
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Peter Berman
Professor of the Practice of
Global Health Systems and Economics,
Department of Global Health
and Population
Director, Global Health and
Population Educational Initiatives
Dr. Berman is Professor of the
Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics and
Director of Education in the Department of Global Health
and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.
He is a health economist with more than thirty years of
experience in research, policy analysis and development,
and training and education in global health. Today he is
leading new research programs to develop effective
primary care systems in Ethiopia and working on
strategies to make health care financing more effective.
He also leads the new HSPH Doctor of Public Health
program. He taught at HSPH from 1991-2004 at which time
he joined the World Bank. While with the World Bank, Dr.
Berman was Lead Health Economist in the New Delhi office
(2004-08) and in the HNP anchor department as Practice
Leader for the World Bank’s Health Systems Global Expert
Team (2008-2011). From 1991-2004, Dr. Berman was
Professor of the Practice of Population and
International Health Economics, the founding director of
the International Health Systems Program, and Principal
Investigator for two global projects at Harvard: The
Data for Decision Making Project, a USAID cooperative
agreement which Dr. Berman directed, and The
Partnerships for Health Reform, as sub-contractor to Abt
Associates. He also led a multi-year study to develop
National Health Accounts with the Government of Turkey
and numerous other international research
collaborations. Dr. Berman has been co-director of the
HSPH-World Bank Institute Flagship Global Core Course on
Health Sector Reform and Sustainable Financing and
directed HSPH’s executive education programs in
Public-Private Partnerships and National Health
Accounts. He is the author and editor of five books on
global health economics and numerous academic papers.
Education
M.Sc., Ph.D., 1984, Cornell
University
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12/28/2016 12:09:08 PM
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