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Peter Berman
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Research
Latest papers
The influence of public health organization on response to the COVID-19 pandemic in four Canadian provinces: A comparative qualitative analysis.
Health policy OPEN · 2025 · senior author
Testing "the science": A comparative analysis of COVID-19 testing policy across four Canadian provinces.
Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025 · senior author
Determining household out of pocket payments, incidence of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment among patients with malaria in Zambia's path towards Universal Health Coverage.
PloS one · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $100,000
Strengthening Capacity for Public Health Leadership and Decision-Making: The Contribution of Case-based Learning
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $149,999
Sustainable financing to transform Canada's public health systems
CIHR · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $612,000
Upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: learning from comparisons across Canada's provinces
CIHR · 2021 · Nominated PI
14 publications.
The influence of public health organization on response to the COVID-19 pandemic in four Canadian provinces: A comparative qualitative analysis.
Usher S, Allin S, Gautier L, Fierlbeck K, Sriram V, Bodner A, Trapé C, Shipton L, Montecalvo A, Berman P
Testing "the science": A comparative analysis of COVID-19 testing policy across four Canadian provinces.
Fierlbeck K, Gautier L, Usher S, Allin S, Sriram V, Berman P
Determining household out of pocket payments, incidence of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment among patients with malaria in Zambia's path towards Universal Health Coverage.
Banda P, Masiye F, Kaonga O, Bump J, Berman P
The use of evidence to guide decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: divergent perspectives from a qualitative case study in British Columbia, Canada.
Brubacher LJ, Lovato CY, Sriram V, Cheng M, Berman P
How Public Health Organizational Structure Affected the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in British Columbia, Canada.
Berman P, Cheng M, Bridget E, Brubacher LJ, Ruck C
How have researchers defined institutions, politics, organizations and governance in research related to epidemic and pandemic response? A scoping review to map current concepts.
Wu A, Khanna S, Keidar S, Berman P, Brubacher LJ
Improving the response to future pandemics requires an improved understanding of the role played by institutions, politics, organization, and governance.
Berman P, Cameron MA, Gaurav S, Gotsadze G, Hasan MZ, Jenei K, Keidar S, Kornreich Y, Lovato C, Patrick DM, Sarker M, Sosa-Villagarcia P, Sriram V, Ruck C
Investigating the influence of institutions, politics, organizations, and governance on the COVID-19 response in British Columbia, Canada: a jurisdictional case study protocol.
Brubacher LJ, Hasan MZ, Sriram V, Keidar S, Wu A, Cheng M, Lovato CY, U. B. C. Working Group on Health Systems Response to COVID-19, Berman P
A practical measure of health facility efficiency: an innovation in the application of routine health information to determine health worker productivity in Ethiopia.
Hasan MZ, Dinsa GD, Berman P
Patient volume and quality of primary care in Ethiopia: findings from the routine health information system and the 2014 Service Provision Assessment survey.
Arsenault C, Yakob B, Tilahun T, Nigatu TG, Dinsa G, Woldie M, Kassa M, Berman P, Kruk ME
Strengthening Capacity for Public Health Leadership and Decision-Making: The Contribution of Case-based Learning
Principal investigators: Sriram, Veena; Berman, Peter
Keywords: Competencies For Public Health Practitioners; Interface With Leaders And Actors In Developing Policies; Problem-Oriented Case-Based Teaching; Strengthen Capacities Of Public Health Trainees
Sustainable financing to transform Canada's public health systems
Principal investigators: Allin, Sara; Pakes, Barry N; Ammi, Mehdi; Pinto, Andrew D
Keywords: Budget Setting; Comparative Policy Analysis; Financing Public Health; Public Health Systems
Upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: learning from comparisons across Canada's provinces
Principal investigators: Berman, Peter; Allin, Sara; Fierlbeck, Katherine
Keywords: Comparisons Across Canadian Provinces; Governance Factors Affecting Public Health Response; Organizational Factors In Public Health Response; Political Determinants Of Public Health Response
Upstream determinants of effective COVID-19 response: tools development and application through a case study in British Columbia
Principal investigators: Berman, Peter
Keywords: Comparative Analysis; Contextual Factors; Epidemiology; Health Policy; Health Services; Policy Analysis; Political Science; Population Health; Public Health
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- School of Population and Public Health
- Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation
- Gestion, évaluation et politiques de santé
- Other
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