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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.

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PHC Progression Model: a novel mixed-methods tool for measuring primary health care system capacity.
Authors: Authors: Ratcliffe HL, Schwarz D, Hirschhorn LR, Cejas C, Diallo A, Elorrio EG, Fifield J, Gashumba D, Hartshorn L, Leydon N, Mohamed M, Nakamura Y, Ndiaye Y, Novignon J, Ofosu A, Roder-DeWan S, Rwiyereka A, Secci F, Veillard JH, Bitton A.
BMJ Glob Health
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The status of Ghanaian community health workers' supervision and service delivery: descriptive analyses from the 2017 Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 survey.
Authors: Authors: Schwarz D, Kim JH, Ratcliffe H, Bell G, Awoonor-Williams JK, Nimako B, Otupiri E, Lipsitz S, Hirschhorn L, Bitton A.
Gates Open Res
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Developing and deploying a community healthcare worker-driven, digitally- enabled integrated care system for municipalities in rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Citrin D, Thapa P, Nirola I, Pandey S, Kunwar LB, Tenpa J, Acharya B, Rayamazi H, Thapa A, Maru S, Raut A, Poudel S, Timilsina D, Dhungana SK, Adhikari M, Khanal MN, Pratap Kc N, Acharya B, Karki KB, Singh DR, Bangura AH, Wacksman J, Storisteanu D, Halliday S, Schwarz R, Schwarz D, Choudhury N, Kumar A, Wu WJ, Kalaunee SP, Chaudhari P, Maru D.
Healthc (Amst)
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The 5S-5M-5C schematic: transforming primary care inputs to outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries.
Authors: Authors: Bitton A, Veillard JH, Basu L, Ratcliffe HL, Schwarz D, Hirschhorn LR.
BMJ Glob Health
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Surgical referral coordination from a first-level hospital: a prospective case study from rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Fleming M, King C, Rajeev S, Baruwal A, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Khadka N, Pande S, Khanal S, Acharya B, Benton A, Rogers SO, Panizales M, Gyorki D, McGee H, Shaye D, Maru D.
BMC Health Serv Res
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Design and implementation of an affordable, public sector electronic medical record in rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Raut A, Yarbrough C, Singh V, Gauchan B, Citrin D, Verma V, Hawley J, Schwarz D, Harsha Bangura A, Shrestha B, Schwarz R, Adhikari M, Maru D.
J Innov Health Inform
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Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships: review and reflections on an approach in Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Citrin D, Mehanni S, Acharya B, Wong L, Nirola I, Sherchan R, Gauchan B, Karki KB, Singh DR, Shamasunder S, Le P, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Dangal B, Dhungana SK, Maru S, Mahar R, Thapa P, Raut A, Adhikari M, Basnett I, Kaluanee SP, Deukmedjian G, Halliday S, Maru D.
Glob Health Action
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Combining Healthcare-Based and Participatory Approaches to Surveillance: Trends in Diarrheal and Respiratory Conditions Collected by a Mobile Phone System by Community Health Workers in Rural Nepal.
Authors: Authors: Meyers DJ, Ozonoff A, Baruwal A, Pande S, Harsha A, Sharma R, Schwarz D, Schwarz RK, Bista D, Halliday S, Maru DS.
PLoS One
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Design and implementation of a patient navigation system in rural Nepal: Improving patient experience in resource-constrained settings.
Authors: Authors: Raut A, Thapa P, Citrin D, Schwarz R, Gauchan B, Bista D, Tamrakar B, Halliday S, Maru D, Schwarz D.
Healthc (Amst)
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Strengthening Nepal's Female Community Health Volunteer network: a qualitative study of experiences at two years.
Authors: Authors: Schwarz D, Sharma R, Bashyal C, Schwarz R, Baruwal A, Karelas G, Basnet B, Khadka N, Brady J, Silver Z, Mukherjee J, Andrews J, Maru DS.
BMC Health Serv Res
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