Core Faculity
The following directory provides information on Core Faculity:
Nandan, Deoki
Prof. Deoki Nandan is Director of National Institute of Health & Family Welfare, New Delhi. He has worked as Principal/Dean & Chief of Hospital, S N Medical College, Agra. He has been actively working in the field of public Health for more than 25 Years and during this period he has been an adviser and have provided consultancy to many international Organizations e.g. WHO-SEARO, UNICEF, CARE-India, EPOS, Population Council, MOST-India and USAID. He is also member of many state level committees and National Technical Expert Committees specifically for AIDS, IMCI and Child Health.
He has also been identified as National Trainer for ICDS, CSSM, RCH, RTI/STD, HIV/AIDS and IMCI. He has successfully undertaken more than 45 community based studies/research/projects on issues related to EPI, RCH, RTI/STD, and HIV/AIDS, in collaboration with national and international agencies, and has numerous research papers published in national and international scientific journals. Besides Public Health, Dr Deoki Nandan has also presented excellent performance academics and has teaching experience of 28 years for undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. He is Technical member of PSC selection boards of Govt. of MP, UP and Uttaranchal; Academic Council member for Agra, Aligarh and Gwalior Universities; Member Governing Council of State Medical Faculty, UP and examiner for MBBS/MD examinations for more than 30 universities. He is also being nominated by Govt. of UP for Human Rights and has also been invited as an expert in international meets/workshops. As Principal/Dean of Agra Medical College he successfully improved the eminence of teaching, training and research and quality of patient care in the institution.
Contact information:
Tel: 91 011 26165959 Ext-301
E-mail: director.nihfw@nic.in, director@nihfw.org, dnandan51@yahoo.com
Roberts, Marc
Dr. Roberts, Ph.D. is a Professor of Political Economy and Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, having received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1970. Professor Roberts has taught in various schools at Harvard - including Arts and Sciences, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Law School for more than 30 years. The author or co-author of approximately 50 articles and 5 books on health care policy and management, environmental policy and public health ethics, he is widely known as trainer and consultant, both in the U.S. and abroad. In recent years, he has worked with the governments of China, Hungary, Poland, Bosnia, and Turkey on health sector reform, and has taken a leading role in educational programs supported by the World Bank around the world, designed to advance reform activities.
In the U.S., he has consulted with, and done training for, various health sector providers - including managed care plans, academic medical centers, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as with many state and local governments. At Harvard, he has played a major role in courses and conferences aimed at a wide variety of health sector audiences. For 12 years, he served as the faculty chairman of the Executive Program for State and Local Government Officials at Harvard. A frequent speaker to meetings ranging from state hospital associations to corporate retreats, he is known for his amusing, down-to-earth style, and his capacity to make complicated concepts easily understandable. He is currently finishing a book on the ethical and philosophical problems of allocating scarce health care resources, and a handbook to guide government officials from developing countries through the process of health sector reform.
Title: Professor
Contact information:
Professor of Political Economy and Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health Harvard University, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115, USA
Tel: Tel: (O)-1-6174320807
E-mail: mroberts@hsph.harvard.edu
Berman, Peter
Prof. Peter Berman (M.Sc, Ph.D) is a health economist with thirty years of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health. He is currently the Lead Economist for Health, Nutrition, and Population at World Bank, Washington and is also Adjunct Professor of the Practice of Population and International Health Economics at Harvard School of Public Health. He has also spent considerable time at the World Bank, New Delhi too. At Harvard he was Professor of Population and International Health Economics and Director of the International Health Systems Program (IHSP, see www.hsph.harvard.edu/ihsg/ihsg.html) in the Population and International Health Department. Prof. Berman is the author or editor of five books on global health economics and policy as well as dozens of academic articles and papers. He has led and/or participated in major field programs in all regions of the developing world.
Prof. Berman's specific areas of technical expertise include analysis of health systems performance and the design of reform strategies; assessment of the supply side of health care delivery and the role of private health care provision in health systems and development of strategies to improve outcomes through public-private sector collaboration; and the use of national health accounts as a policy and planning tool. Prof. Berman has worked extensively on health system reform issues in a number of countries, including Egypt, India, Colombia, Indonesia, and Poland. He is co-author of Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (Roberts, et al, Oxford University Press, 2003), co-editor of the recently published Guide to the Production of National Health Accounts (World Bank, World Health Organization, and USAID, 2003), and co-editor of Paying for India's Health Care (Sage, 1993).
Title: Lead Economist
Contact information:
E-mail: pberman@worldbank.org
La Forgia, Jerry
Jerry La Forgia is a Lead Health Specialist at the World Bank, New Delhi. He devises policies and strategies, conducts policy dialogue with clients and designs and supervises Bank lending operations. He is also leading several policy research tasks in health. He has worked in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, México, Nicaragua, Panamá and Uruguay. Dr. La Forgia specializes in health finance and management. His most recent publications are a book on hospital performance in Brazil, an edited volume on health system innovations in Central America and a monograph on the governance and quality of spending in Brazil's Unified Health System. Current interests include: public-private contracting, public-private partnerships for improved health system performance, hospital management and governance, public sector management reform, and improving quality of health care. He formally was a Research Associate at the Urban Institute and a Senior Health Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank.
Bossert, Thomas Dr. Bossert is the Director of the International Health Systems Program of the Harvard School of Public Health. He has many years of experience in international development in Latin America and the Caribbean, Indonesia, India, Francophone Africa, Zambia, and Central and Eastern Europe. His specialties include governance and policy analysis, organizational and institutional analysis (including decentralization, human resources strategic planning, institutional transformation), public/private relations, social capital and community development, regulation, and project design and evaluation. His responsibilities have included providing technical assistance, training, conducting research, and project management for contracts with various donors including USAID, World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, DFID, World Health Organization. He is co-director of the Harvard/World Bank Flagship Course on Health Reform and Sustainable Financing. Dr. Bossert earned his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and his A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton Unvierstiy. He is fluent in Spanish and has a working knowledge of French.