Institute of Development Studies

Biography

Gerry Bloom is a physician and health economist. His special interest is the management of health system transition in the context of rapid social and economic change. Areas of particular focus include the changing roles of government, health system innovations processes of institutional development.

Selected Projects and Recent Work

• Rising Powers in International Development
• Potential of Mining PPPs to Strengthen Health Systems and Extend Health Services to Underserved Populations
• ARCADE HSSR: African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research
• Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium
• Partnership for Technical Assistance to Implementation of China Rural Health Project
• Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre
• Brazil Indigenous Health System
• Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness

Thematic Expertise

Governance; Health; Politics and Power; Science and Society; Social Policy; Social Protection.

Geographic Expertise

Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; Laos; Nigeria; Zimbabwe.

Selected Publications »»

• Ir, P., Menc, C., Lucas, H., Meessen, B., Decoster, K., Bloom,G. and Van Damme, W. (2010) 'Self-Reported Serious Illnesses in Rural Cambodia: A Cross-Sectional Survey', PLoS ONE e10930. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010930 6.5
• Bloom,G. and Ainsworth,P. (2010) 'Beyond Scaling Up: Towards Universal Access to Health Services', STEPS Centre Working Paper 40, Brighton:
• Zhao, H., Killingsworth, J. and Bloom, G (2010) 'Public Sector Reform and its Impact on the Health Sector' in Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q. (eds), Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China, Beijing: Peking University Medical Press
• Zhao, H., Lin, V., Bloom, G., Killingsworth, J. and Walker, R. (2010) 'Regulation' in Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q. (eds), Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China, Beijing: Peking University Medical Press
• Bloom, g., Lin, V. and Wu, Q. (2010) 'Policy Implementation' in Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q. (eds), Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China, Beijing: Peking University Medical Press
• Zhang, Z., Fang, L. and Bloom, G. (2010) 'The Rural Health Protection System in China' in Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q. (eds), Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China, Beijing: Peking University Medical Press
• Liu, Y. and Bloom, G. (2010) 'Rural Health System Reform in Poverty Areas' in Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q. (eds), Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China, Beijing: Peking University Medical Press
• Hyder, A., Syed, S., Puvanachandra, P., Bloom, G., Sundaram, S. (2010) 'Stakeholder Analysis for Health Research: Case Studies from Low and Middle Income Countries', Public Health 124:159 - 166
• Fang, J. and Bloom, G. (2010) 'Chinese Rural Health System Development and Reform: a Perspective of Environment and Health', Journal of Contemporary China 19(63):23 - 35
• Bloom, G., Hawkins, K., Pei, X., Xiao, Y. and Zhang, Z. (2009) 'Lessons from the Chinese Approach to Health System Development', IDS In Focus Policy Briefings 8.1, Brighton: IDS
• Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J. (2009) 'A Partnership for Health in China: Reflections on the Partnership Between the Government of China, the World Bank and DFID in the China Basic Health Services Project', IDS Research Summary 2, Brighton: IDS
• Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J. (2009) 'A Partnership for Health in China: Reflections on the Partnership between the Government of China, the World Bank and DFID in the China Basic Health Services Project', IDS Practice Paper 2, Brighton: IDS
• Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J. (2008) 'Partnership for development - lessons from a health project in China', DFID Briefing , Department for International Development (DFID)
• Huntingdon, D., Liu, Y., Ollier, L. and Bloom, G. (2008) 'Improving maternal health - lessons from the basic health services project in China', DFID Briefing , Department for International Development (DFID)
• Meesen, B. Pei, X. Criel, B. and Bloom, G. (2008) Health and Social Protection: Experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao, Antwerp: ITG Press