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Dan Schwarz, M.D.

Dan Schwarz, MD MPH is the Director of Primary Health Care at Ariadne Labs. Dan brings over a decade of global experience in healthcare delivery.

Prior to joining Ariadne Labs, Dan served as the Executive Director, and then Chief Medical Officer for Possible (www.possiblehealth.org), in which role he helped to build and lead an innovative public private partnership for healthcare delivery with the Nepali Ministry of Health. This work now spans multiple districts throughout Nepal, providing both facility- and community-based services to over 500,000 people. Now at Ariadne, Dan continues to serve as a Strategic Adviser to the organization and the Nepali government.

Before his work in Nepal, Dan has also worked for Partners In Health (www.pih.org) in multiple countries, and several other non-governmental organizations throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. Dan serves as an adviser to the World Health Organization in their Primary Healthcare Measurement Initiative, and an adviser to the Lancet Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases and Poverty.

Clinically, Dan is a trained general internist and pediatrician from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He works as a general internist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and teaches medical students and residents at Harvard Medical School. Dan completed his undergraduate training at Vassar College, his MD at Brown University, and his MPH at Harvard University.

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Health facility management and primary health care performance in Uganda.
Authors: Authors: Kim JH, Bell GA, Bitton A, Desai EV, Hirschhorn LR, Makumbi F, Nabiwemba E, Ratcliffe HL, Wabwire-Mangen F, Kibira SPS, Schwarz D.
BMC Health Serv Res
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Predictors of patient-reported quality of care in low- and middle-income countries: a four-country survey of person-centered care.
Authors: Authors: Kim JH, Bell GA, Ratcliffe HL, Moncada L, Lipsitz S, Hirschhorn LR, Bitton A, Schwarz D.
Int J Qual Health Care
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Collaborative care model for depression in rural Nepal: a mixed-methods implementation research study.
Authors: Authors: Rimal P, Choudhury N, Agrawal P, Basnet M, Bohara B, Citrin D, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Gupta P, Gupta TK, Halliday S, Kadayat B, Mahar R, Maru D, Nguyen V, Poudel S, Raut A, Rawal J, Sapkota S, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Shrestha S, Swar S, Thapa A, Thapa P, White R, Acharya B.
BMJ Open
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Strengthening data collection and use for quality improvement in primary care: the case of Costa Rica.
Authors: Authors: Pesec M, Spigel L, Granados JMM, Bitton A, Hirschhorn LR, Brizuela JAJ, Pignone M, Sáenz MDR, Schwarz D, Villegas Del Carpio O, Wilson IB, Zamora Méndez E, Ratcliffe HL.
Health Policy Plan
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The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion.
Authors: Authors: Bukhman G, Mocumbi AO, Atun R, Becker AE, Bhutta Z, Binagwaho A, Clinton C, Coates MM, Dain K, Ezzati M, Gottlieb G, Gupta I, Gupta N, Hyder AA, Jain Y, Kruk ME, Makani J, Marx A, Miranda JJ, Norheim OF, Nugent R, Roy N, Stefan C, Wallis L, Mayosi B.
Lancet
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Assessment of Bypass of the Nearest Primary Health Care Facility Among Women in Ghana.
Authors: Authors: Bell G, Macarayan EK, Ratcliffe H, Kim JH, Otupiri E, Lipsitz S, Hirschhorn L, Awoonor-Williams JK, Nimako BA, Ofosu A, Leslie H, Bitton A, Schwarz D.
JAMA Netw Open
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Implementing sustainable primary healthcare reforms: strategies from Costa Rica.
Authors: Authors: Spigel L, Pesec M, Villegas Del Carpio O, Ratcliffe HL, Jiménez Brizuela JA, Madriz Montero A, Zamora Méndez E, Schwarz D, Bitton A, Hirschhorn LR.
BMJ Glob Health
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Costing Analysis of a Pilot Community Health Worker Program in Rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Nepal P, Schwarz R, Citrin D, Thapa A, Acharya B, Acharya Y, Aryal A, Baum A, Bhandari V, Bhatt L, Bhattarai D, Choudhury N, Dangal B, Dhimal M, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Halliday S, Kalaunee SP, Kunwar LB, Maru D, Nirola I, Paudel R, Raut A, Rayamazi HJ, Sapkota S, Schwarz D, Thapa P, Thapa P, Tiwari A, Tuitui R, Walter E, Maru S.
Glob Health Sci Pract
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Towards patient-centred care in Ghana: health system responsiveness, self-rated health and experiential quality in a nationally representative survey.
Authors: Authors: Ratcliffe HL, Bell G, Awoonor-Williams K, Bitton A, Kim JH, Lipstiz S, Macarayan E, Ofosu A, Otupiri E, Schwarz D, Hirschhorn LR.
BMJ Open Qual
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Application of single-level and multi-level modeling approach to examine geographic and socioeconomic variation in underweight, overweight and obesity in Nepal: findings from NDHS 2016.
Authors: Authors: Shrestha N, Mishra SR, Ghimire S, Gyawali B, Pradhan PMS, Schwarz D.
Sci Rep
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