Professor David Peters, new Alliance chair4 February 2016 – The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research is pleased to announce that Professor David Peters, chair of the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has taken over from John-Arne Røttingen as the new chair of its Board.
David Peters has served on the Alliance Board for the last 3 years and has collaborated with the Alliance in editing the last Flagship Report on Essential Medicines and on the Implementation Research Guide.
He is a specialist in international health systems who has worked as a researcher, policy advisor, educator, bureaucrat, manager and clinician in numerous developing countries over the last 2 decades.
He has served on other advisory boards, including those for GAVI, the Global Fund, USAID and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Institute of Population and Public Health, and co-leads the Thematic Working Group on Teaching and Learning Health Policy and Systems Research for Health Systems Global.
