Bio: Dale Bramley, a 2003-04 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is general manager for funding and planning at the Waitemata District Health Board (DHB), Auckland, New Zealand. Bramley is also a senior lecturer in public health for the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland. His research interests including cardiovascular health gain at a population level, including risk screening and assessment, disparities in health for indigenous peoples and clinical interventions to reduce health inequalities. Bramley is a member of several national advisory committees including the National Ethics Advisory Committee, which has responsibility for providing advice to the Minister of Health on ethical issues of national significance in the health and disability sector.
Placement: Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
Mentors: Mark Chassin, M.D., M.P.P., M.P.H.
Project: Indigenous Disparities in Health Status: A Cross-Country Comparison of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States
Description: Bramley investigated disparities in health status among indigenous peoples in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the U.S., the ways in which these are documented and tracked, and the policy approaches to reducing these disparities. He used available indicators of health outcomes, preventive services, modifiable risk factors, and treatment services in each country, and collaborated with country experts to interpret the results and analyze each country's policy responses.