Volume II focuses on defining and providing the underpinnings of the main approach that characterizes this reference set: examining the role of "upstream" factors in determining policy and implementation responses to public health crises with a focus on the interaction of Institutions, Politics, and the Organization of public health systems through analysis of Governance defined as decision-making process. We abbreviate this approach with the initials IPOG.
The IPOG approach emerged from a multi-disciplinary and multi-national collaboration motivated by the observation from many jurisdictions of widely differing approaches to pandemic response during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) despite the relatively rapid dissemination of common science and evidence. The simple question arose — why? The clear answer — it wasn't just about the findings and reporting of public health and medical science. IPOG seemed the next place to look. But what, specifically to look for and how to look for it? Responses to these questions define the contents of Volume II.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface by Editor-in-Chief and Preface to Volume 2
Chapter 1: Improving the Response to Future Pandemics Requires an Improved Understanding of the Role Played by Institutions, Politics, Organization, and Governance
Contents:
- Improving the Response to Future Pandemics Requires an Improved Understanding of the Role Played by Institutions, Politics, Organization, and Governance (Peter Berman, Maxwell A Cameron, Sarthak Gaurav, George Gotsadze, Md Zabir Hasan, Kristina Jenei, Shelly Keidar, Yoel Kornreich, Chris Y Lovato, David M Patrick, Malabika Sarker, Paolo Sosa-Villagarcia, Veena Sriram, and Candice Ruck)
- How Have Researchers Defined Institutions, Politics, Organizations, and Governance in Research Related to Epidemic and Pandemic Response? A Scoping Review to Map Current Concepts (Austin Wu, Shivangi Khanna, Shelly Keidar, Peter Berman, and Laura Jane Brubacher)
- Exploring the Impact of Institutions, Politics, and Organization on Governance as Decision-Making in Pandemic Response (Peter Berman)
- Investigating the Influence of Institutions, Politics, Organizations, and Governance on the COVID-19 Response in British Columbia, Canada: A Jurisdictional Case Study Protocol (Laura Jane Brubacher, Md Zabir Hasan, Veena Sriram, Shelly Keidar, Austin Wu, Michael Cheng, Chris Y Lovato, UBC Working Group on Health Systems Response to COVID-19, and Peter Berman)
- Timeline Analysis for Probing the Impact of IPOG Factors on Pandemic Response (David M Patrick)
- Politics, Political Science, and the Pandemic (Kevin Croke)
- Is There a "Public Health System"? How Can We Describe Its Organization? (Peter Berman, Elvira Bridget, and Candice Ruck)
- Decentralization and COVID-19 Policies (Thomas J Bossert, Gregory P Marchildon, and Dian Kusuma)
- Comparing Public Health Systems Across Canada: System Structures, Reforms, and the Pandemic Experience (Harman S Sandhu, Sara Allin, Robert Schwartz, and Erica di Ruggiero)
- Finding the Balance: Unpacking Policy Processes and the COVID-19 Pandemic Response in British Columbia, Canada (Laura Jane Brubacher, Veena Sriram, Leah Shipton, Maxwell A Cameron, Chris Y Lovato, and Peter Berman)
- Global Pandemic Governance: Prevention, Preparedness and Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Julianne Piper and Kelley Lee)
- Afterword (Peter Berman)
Readership: Undergraduates and graduates studying courses in health policy, public health, emergency preparedness, global health, population health, and disease control, as well as those working on global health security in government agencies and national and sub-national apex public health organizations.
Prof. Peter Berman (MSc, PhD) is a health economist with five decades of experience in research, policy analysis and development, and training and education in global health. Prof. Berman is Emeritus Professor of Public Health at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver Canada, and Adjunct Professor in Global Health at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University.
Prof. Berman was on the faculty of Harvard University for a quarter century, lastly as Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) in Boston, USA. He is also affiliated as Adjunct Professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) in New Delhi, India and as advisor to the China National Health Development Research Center for health care financing and health accounts.
Prof. Berman was the founding faculty director of Harvard Chan's new Doctor of Public Health degree and was actively engaged in graduate education reform in global public health at Harvard. In recent years, Prof. Berman has led several innovative research projects on developing primary care systems, strengthening service delivery, and improving health care financing mechanisms for better outcomes, with a focus on work in Ethiopia, India, and Malaysia. Prof. Berman continued his work in Ethiopia while at UBC.
With the World Bank from 2004–2011, Prof. Berman spent four years in the Bank's New Delhi office as Lead Economist for Health, Nutrition, and Population. He led analytical work on health systems analysis and strategic approaches to improving service delivery.
Prof. Berman was the founding Director of the International Health Systems Program in the Population and International Health Department at Harvard. He is the author or editor of five books on global health economics and policy and more than 50 academic papers in his field and numerous other working papers and reports. He has led and/or participated in major field programs in all regions of the developing world.
Prof. Berman's specific areas of work include analysis of health systems performance and the design of reform strategies; assessment of the supply side of health care delivery and the role of private health care provision in health systems and development of strategies to improve outcomes through public-private sector collaboration. He pioneered the development and use of national health accounts as a policy and planning tool in developing countries. Prof. Berman has worked extensively on health system reform and health care development issues in a number of countries including Egypt, India, Colombia, Indonesia, and Poland. He has also worked for extended periods of residency and field work in Indonesia and India. He is co-author of Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity (Roberts, et al., Oxford University Press, 2008), co-editor of the Guide to the Production of National Health Accounts (World Bank, World Health Organization, and USAID, 2003), and co-editor of Berman and Khan, Paying for India's Health Care (Sage, 1993).
