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Dan Schwarz, MD

GHSM Affiliate
Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Director of Primary Health Care, Ariadne Labs

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.

Affliates

Primary Care 2030: Creating an Enabling Ecosystem for Disruptive Primary Care Models to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
Authors: Authors: Schwarz D, Duong D, Adam C, Awoonor-Williams JK, Back D, Bang A, Bang R, Beebe M, Bhatt S, Campbell J, Conteh M, Dimitrova D, Dimovska D, Dossou JP, Evans T, Gadir M, Islam K, Kasyaba R, Kumar P, Levy C, Oanh TM, Monsef N, Oh J, Otoo N, Palazuelos D, Poh A, Sinha S, Smith C, Stewart B, Thomas C, Tritter B, Varnum P, Weilnau T, Ellner A.
Ann Glob Health
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An integrated intervention for chronic care management in rural Nepal: protocol of a type 2 hybrid effectiveness-implementation study.
Authors: Authors: Schwarz D, Dhungana S, Kumar A, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Baum A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Dhimal M, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, Koirala B, Kshatriya U, Levine E, Maru S, Rimal P, Sapkota S, Schwarz R, Shrestha A, Thapa A, Maru D.
Trials
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Estimated cost for cardiovascular disease risk-based management at a primary healthcare center in Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Aryal A, Citrin D, Halliday S, Kumar A, Nepal P, Shrestha A, Nugent R, Schwarz D.
Glob Health Res Policy
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National Response to COVID-19 in the Republic of Korea and Lessons Learned for Other Countries.
Authors: Authors: Oh J, Lee JK, Schwarz D, Ratcliffe HL, Markuns JF, Hirschhorn LR.
Health Syst Reform
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Preliminary validation of the PRImary care facility Management Evaluation tool (PRIME-Tool), a national facility management survey implemented in Ghana.
Authors: Authors: Uy J, Macarayan EK, Ratcliffe HL, Miller K, Otupiri E, Awoonor-Williams JK, Hirschhorn LR, Lipsitz SR, Schwarz D, Bitton A.
BMC Health Serv Res
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Transition to active learning in rural Nepal: an adaptable and scalable curriculum development model.
Authors: Authors: Mehanni S, Wong L, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Basnet M, Citrin D, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Gupta TK, Halliday S, Kalaunee SP, Kshatriya U, Kumar A, Maru D, Maru S, Nguyen V, Paudel JS, Rimal P, Saleh M, Schwarz R, Swar SB, Thapa A, Tiwari A, White R, Wu WJ, Schwarz D.
BMC Med Educ
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Primary healthcare system performance in low-income and middle-income countries: a scoping review of the evidence from 2010 to 2017.
Authors: Authors: Bitton A, Fifield J, Ratcliffe H, Karlage A, Wang H, Veillard JH, Schwarz D, Hirschhorn LR.
BMJ Glob Health
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Continuity in primary care: a critical but neglected component for achieving high-quality universal health coverage.
Authors: Authors: Schwarz D, Hirschhorn LR, Kim JH, Ratcliffe HL, Bitton A.
BMJ Glob Health
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Designing and implementing an integrated non-communicable disease primary care intervention in rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Kumar A, Schwarz D, Acharya B, Agrawal P, Aryal A, Choudhury N, Citrin D, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhimal M, Dhungana S, Gauchan B, Gupta T, Halliday S, Jha D, Kalaunee SP, Karmacharya B, Kishore S, Koirala B, Kunwar L, Mahar R, Maru S, Mehanni S, Nirola I, Pandey S, Pant B, Pathak M, Poudel S, Rajbhandari I, Raut A, Rimal P, Schwarz R, Shrestha A, Thapa A, Thapa P, Thapa R, Wong L, Maru D.
BMJ Glob Health
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Implementing a quality improvement initiative for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Mehanni S, Jha D, Kumar A, Choudhury N, Dangal B, Deukmedjian G, Dhungana SK, Gauchan B, Gupta TK, Halliday S, Kalaunee SP, Mahar R, Poudel S, Raut A, Schwarz R, Singh DR, Thapa A, Thapa R, Wong L, Maru D, Schwarz D.
BMJ Open Qual
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