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Gerry Bloom - Research Fellow

Knowledge Technology and Society
T: +44 (0)1273 915667
E: g.bloom@ids.ac.uk

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Thematic Expertise:
BRICS and Rising Powers; Business; Governance; Health; Politics and Power; Science and Society; Social Policy; Social Protection.

Geographic Expertise:
Bangladesh; Cambodia; China; Laos; Nigeria; Zimbabwe.

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.

AllAfrica and IDS development reporting initiative
IDS and AllAfrica have teamed up to produce and distribute compelling multi-media content on critical issues for Africa’s future, as part of a development reporting initiative.

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ARCADE HSSR: African Regional Capacity Development for Health Systems and Services Research
A Consortium led by Karolinska Institutet strengthening research training capacity at Sub Saharan African universities for health systems and services development. Focusing on doctoral and post doctoral training, institutional strengthening for education and research management.

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Brazil Indigenous Health System

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Development Studies Learning Partnership
The Development Studies Learning Partnership under the BRICS Initiative in 2011, enables collaborative learning between traditional and emerging actors in development, be they academics, researchers, practitioners or policy-makers.

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Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium
Future Health Systems is a research consortium working to improve access, affordability and quality of health services for the poor.

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Not Just Talk: Practice, Power, Knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies (TPPI)
Not Just Talk: Practice, Power, Knowledge and Information and Communication Technologies is a new IDS research initiative that seeks to critically examine the opportunities and challenges that the new generation of ICT innovations pose for poor and vulnerable groups.

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Partnership for Technical Assistance to Implementation of China Rural Health Project
Early this year the Chinese Government announced a major rural health reform policy, which includes a substantial increase in public funding and measures to improve the performance of the providers of health services.

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Potential of Mining PPPs to Strengthen Health Systems and Extend Health Services to Underserved Populations

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Protecting the rural poor against the economic consequences of major illness
Major illness in the family has become an important cause of household impoverishment in China and the ex-command economies of Southeast Asia, as these countries have managed the transition to a market economy.

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Rising Powers in International Development
Poverty reduction in low-income countries is increasingly influenced by the Rising Powers, a category that includes the BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as regional powers such as Mexico and Indonesia.

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Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability (STEPS) Centre
The STEPS Centre is an interdisciplinary global research and policy engagement hub, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. It aims to develop a new approach to understanding, action and communication on sustainability and development.

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Transforming Health Markets in Asia and Africa: Improving Quality and Access for the Poor

 (2012)
Bloom, G., Kanjilal, B., Lucas, H. and David Peters, D.

Self-Reported Serious Illnesses in Rural Cambodia: A Cross-Sectional Survey

 PLoS ONE e10930. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010930 6.5 (2010)
Ir, P., Menc, C., Lucas, H., Meessen, B., Decoster, K., Bloom,G. and Van Damme, W.

Beyond Scaling Up: Towards Universal Access to Health Services

 STEPS Centre Working Paper 40 (2010)
Bloom,G. and Ainsworth,P.

Public Sector Reform and its Impact on the Health Sector

 In 'Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China' (2010)
Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q.

Regulation

 In 'Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China' (2010)
Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q.

Policy Implementation

 In 'Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China' (2010)
Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q.

The Rural Health Protection System in China

 In 'Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China' (2010)
Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q.

Rural Health System Reform in Poverty Areas

 In 'Health Policy In Transition: The Challenges for China' (2010)
Lin, V., Gui, Y., Legge, D. and Wu, Q.

Stakeholder Analysis for Health Research: Case Studies from Low and Middle Income Countries

 Public Health 124 (2010)
Hyder, A., Syed, S., Puvanachandra, P., Bloom, G., Sundaram, S.

Chinese Rural Health System Development and Reform: a Perspective of Environment and Health

 Journal of Contemporary China 19(63) (2010)
Fang, J. and Bloom, G.

Lessons from the Chinese Approach to Health System Development

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 8.1 (2009)
Bloom, G., Hawkins, K., Pei, X., Xiao, Y. and Zhang, Z.

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

 In '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' (2009)
Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J.

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 (2009)
Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J.

Partnership for development - lessons from a health project in China

 DFID Briefing (2008)
Bloom, G., Liu, Y. and Qiao, J.

Improving maternal health - lessons from the basic health services project in China

 DFID Briefing (2008)
Huntingdon, D., Liu, Y., Ollier, L. and Bloom, G.

Health and Social Protection: Experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao

 (2008)
Meesen, B., Pei, X., Criel, B. and Bloom, G.

Health markets and future health systems: innovation for equity

 Global Forum Update on Research for Health 5 (2008)
Bloom, G. Champion, C. Lucas, H., Rahman, M.H., Bhuiya, A., Oladepo, O. and Peters, D.

Health Policy Processes in Asian Transitional Economies

 In 'Health and Social Protection: Experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao' (2008)
Meesen, B., Pei, X., Criel, B. and Bloom, G.

Institutional arrangements and health service delivery in low income countries

 In 'Implementing Health Services Strategies in Low and Middle Income Countries: From Evidence to Learning and Doing' (2008)
Peters, D.H., et al

What do we mean by ‘major illness’? The need for new approaches to research on the impact of ill-health on poverty

 In 'Health and Social Protection: Experiences from Cambodia, China and Lao' (2008)
Meesen, B., Pei, X., Criel, B. and Bloom, G.
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