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John W. Peabody, MD, DTM&H, M Phil, PhD, FACP

  1. Deputy Director, Institute for Global Health
  2. Attending Physician, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  3. Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
  4. Associate Professor, School of Public Health, UCLA
  5. Senior Scientist, RAND
  Phone: 415-597-8202  
Fax: 415-597-8299
Email: peabody@psg.ucsf.edu

Dr. John Peabody is a graduate of Stanford University, UCSF, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and RAND Graduate School. For 17 years, he has been involved in multidisciplinary approaches to address health policy reform for poor populations in developing countries. Dr. Peabody is Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health and an attending physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco. He has developed a method for accurately and inexpensively assessing the quality of clinical care in large population base studies. Dr. Peabody has received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), various governments, and foundations.


Principal Research Interests

  • Health policy and health sector reform
  • Health services research
  • Health economics and development
  • Quality of care, measurement, and cross-system comparisons
  • Vignettes as a method to improve practice and outcomes.

Principal Teaching Activities

  • UCSF General Internal Medicine Students and Residents, Attending Physician
  • Academic/Career Mentor, Advisor, and Sponsor to UCSF, UCLA, and RAND Medical Students
  • UCSF Health Policy and Health Services Research
  • UCLA World Health 260 A&B
  • SF VAMC / UCSF Medicine 110 & Medicine 140.02
  • UCSF Infection, Immunity, & Inflammation IDS 105/132
  • RAND Dissertation Committees

Selected University & Public Service

  • Medical Residents Selection Committee
  • Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Personnel
  • Health Sciences Compensation Plan Committee
  • Advisory Board of Health and Society Scholars, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • SF VAMC R&D Committee
  • UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research / Fogarty Review Committee
  • Chinese American International School Community Volunteer

Selected Publications

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