John W. Peabody, M.D., D.T.M.&H., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Services, UCLA

Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine, UCSF

UCSF
Department of  Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Box 0886, 74 New Montgmry 508

University of California
 San Francisco, CA  94143

(415) 597-8202

Fax: (415) 597-8299

E-mail: peabody@psg.ucsf.edu

Dr. John W. Peabody, MD, DTM&H, M.Phil, PhD, FACP is an Attending Physician at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health (IGH) and heads up the health policy activities. He has been a full-time member of the University of California since 1995 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medicine. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Health Services at UCLA in the School of Public Health. Dr. Peabody has published articles on international comparative health policy, quality of care, measuring and changing provider practice, changing financial incentives in primary care, and the organization and financing of health care systems. He is the lead author of Policy and Health: Implications for Development in Asia, published by Cambridge University Press.

For five years at RAND he was a senior scientist and Principal Investigator for over nine separate projects with 3 million dollars in funding. Funding was from a variety of sources – the NIH, VA HSR&D, World Bank, national governments in Asia and Eastern Europe and the Asian Development Bank. Before RAND, Dr. Peabody worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva and Manila for three years; he also spent two years as Director for Project Hope in China. From 1995 to 1999, he was in the Department of Medicine at UCLA. In 1999, he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Nordyke R and Peabody, JW. “Market Reforms and Public Incentives: Finding a Balance in the Republic of Macedonia.” Social Science and Medicine, forthcoming, 2001.

Luck J, Peabody JW, Dresselhaus TR, Lee M, and Glassman P.  “How Well Does Chart Abstraction Measure Quality?A Prospective Comparison of Standardized Patients with the Medical Record.” The American Journal of Medicine, Vol.108:642-649, 2000.

Peabody JW, Luck J, Glassman P, Dresselhaus TR, Lee M, “Comparison of Vignettes, Standardized Patients, and Chart Abstraction: A Prospective Validation Study of 3 Methods for Measuring Quality.” JAMA, 283(13):1715-1722, April 5, 2000.

Peabody JW, “Measuring the Social Responsiveness of Medical Schools: Setting the Standards.” Academic Medicine, 74:S59-S68, 1999.

Peabody JW, Gertler PJ, and Leibowitz A.  “The Policy Implications of Better Structure and Process on Birth Outcomes in Jamaica.” (RAND Reprint #RP-826. RAND, Santa Monica, CA.) Health Policy, 43(1):1-13, January 1998.

Peabody JW, and Gertler PJ, “Are Clinical Criteria Just Proxies for Socioeconomic Status?  A Study of Low Birthweight in Jamaica,” Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,  51(1):90-95, 1997.

Peabody JW, Lawson J, and Bickel S, “The Australian Health Care System: Are the Incentives Down Under Right Side Up?” Journal of the American Medical Association, 276(24):1944-1950, December 25,1996.

Peabody JW. “An Organizational Analysis of the World Health Organization: Narrowing the Gap Between Promise and Performance,” Social Science and Medicine, 40(6):731-742, 1995.

Peabody JW, Lee DH, Yang BM, and Gertler PJ, “Financing Health Care for the Elderly: Will an Aging Population End ‘Health for All’ in South Korea?”  Submitted to Social Science and Medicine.  In Hu TW, et al. Financing Health Care in Asia – forthcoming.

Peabody JW, Rahman MO, Gertler PJ, Mann J, Farley DO, and Carter GM. Policy and Health: Implications for Development in Asia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA. August 1999

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Full-time Faculty:

Emily Abel, PhD

Ronald Andersen, PhD

Roshan Bastani, PhD

Lester Breslow, MD

Robert Brook, MD, ScD

E. Richard Brown, PhD

William Comanor, PhD

William Cunningham, MD, MPH

Susan Ettner, PhD

Jonathan Fielding, MD, MPH, MA, MBA

Patricia Ganz, MD

F.A. (Fred) Hagigi, MBA, CMC, MPH, DrPH

Ronald Hays, PhD

Diana Hilberman, DrPH

Gerald Kominski, PhD

Charles Lewis, MD, ScD

Mark Litwin, MD, MPH

Jeff Luck, PhD


Marvin Marcus, DDS

Patricia Parkerton, PhD

John W. Peabody, MD, DTM&H, PhD

Ninez Ponce, PhD

Thomas Rice, PhD

Ruth Roemer, JD

Mark Schuster, MD, PhD

Stuart Schweitzer, PhD

Martin Shapiro, MD

Amardeep Thind, MD, PhD

Paul Torrens, MD, MPH

Part-time Faculty:

Alkon, Ellen, M.D.

Barbara Berman, Ph.D.

Michael Bobrow, A.I.A.

Stuart Bowne, M.D.

Pamela Davidson, Ph.D.

Escarce, Jose, M.D.

Melissa Farmer, Ph.D.

Fink, Arlene, Ph.D.

Brenda Freshman, Ph.D.

Dana Goldman, Ph.D.

Nancy Harada, Ph.D., P.T.

Alain Jourdier

Emmett Keeler, Ph.D.

Jacqueline Kosecoff, Ph.D.

Antonio Legorreta, Ph.D.

Eric McLaughlin, Ph.D.

Robert Nordyke, Ph.D.

Nadereh Pourat, Ph.D.

Jon Riddle, Ph.D.


Louis Rubino, Ph.D.

Anthony H. Schiff, J.D.

Richard E. Sinaiko, MPH

Iraj Tabibzadeh, M.D.

Elizabeth Yano, Ph.D.