| John W. Peabody, M.D., D.T.M.&H., Ph.D. | ||||
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.
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 |
Full-time Faculty: Emily
Abel, PhD Part-time Faculty: Alkon,
Ellen, M.D. |