The Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research (GCHEPR) was created to promote action-oriented international dialog on the financial, cultural, and infrastructure issues that constrain the equitable delivery of quality health services. Its programs engage in research, training, and collaboration across nations and continents to promote vital policy and system improvements.

Current international research focuses on:

• Mental health care reforms in Central and Eastern Europe
• The global market for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder medications
• The global health workforce
• Health insurance, financing, and health care labor markets
• The correlation between social capital and health

For the past three years, the Global Center's Mental Health and Policy Research Training Program has brought young scholars and clinicians from Central Europe to Berkeley for intensive training in health care finance, market, delivery, and policy issues. Funded by the Fogarty International Center/NIH, this highly successful program is now being expanded to other countries in Eastern and Central Europe.

The inspiration behind the Global Center came from the International Health Economics Association Fourth World Congress, which was held in San Francisco in June of 2003 under the leadership of Richard Scheffler, Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Scheffler is also Director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets & Consumer Welfare.

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The Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research

For US Mail and UC Berkeley mail, please use our mailing address:

50 University Hall, MC7360
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720

For express deliveries (Fedex, UPS, DHL, etc.), please use our physical location:

2150 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 525
Berkeley, California 94704

General information:

Amy Nuttbrock
Program Coordinator
(510) 643-4100
amynuttbrock@berkeley.edu

Grant proposals and funding:

Jim Ross
Associate Director of Finance and Administration
(510) 643-4101
jfrross@berkeley.edu

Research and publications:

Tim Brown
Associate Director of Research
(510) 643-4103
tbpetris@berkeley.edu

Technical issues or web-related content:

Hannah Hu
Webmaster
webmaster@petris.org

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