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Dov
Chernichovsky, Ph.D. (Economics),
a graduate of the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem and the Graduate School of CUNY,
is a professor
of health economics and policy in the Department
of Health Policy and Management at Ben
Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Dov
helped establish the Department, the first
of its kind in Israel.
He
is a Research Associate with the National
Bureau of Economic Research, USA, has been
a staff member
of and a consultant for the World Bank,
and heads the health policy team of the
Center for the
Study of Social Policy in Israel. Dov also
serves on a new commission, recently appointed
by the
Government of Israel to examine the Israeli
health system and the status of the Israeli
physician.
Dov
has been a member of the boards of the
Israeli Cancer Society and the Family Planning
Association.
He was member Israeli State (Blue Ribbon
/ Royal) Commission of Inquiry into the
Israeli Health
Care System, This commission outlined the
reform proposal that led to the national
health insurance
legislation that was enacted in Israel
in 1995.
On
behalf of the World Bank, he played key
roles in health system reform formulations
in Rumania,
Russia, and more recently in Mexico. In
Russia he helped formulate the health Insurance
legislation
underlying the current Russian health system.
His research interests include health system
finance and organization, provider reimbursement,
cost accounting of health systems and facilities,
public policy in health, and public-private
mix.
Currently, Dov is on Sabbatical leave, spending time as a Honorary
Visiting Scholar at the World Bank and teaching at Georgetown University in Washington
D.C.
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