Bio: Mark Booth, a 2006-07 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is the senior health advisor to the New Zealand Minister of Health (on secondment). Previously, he was a manager within the Sector Policy Directorate of the New Zealand Ministry of Health. He has responsibility for the provision of strategic policy advice to the Minister of Health on health funding issues, therapeutics and social policy. Prior to moving to New Zealand in 1999, he lived and worked in the U.K. He was a research student in health economics at the University of Manchester and a research fellow at the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York. Following this he spent a number of years working for the NHS both as a manager and as a private sector management consultant. He has had publications in a number of journals and books and has particular interests in health funding, prioritization issues and health needs assessment. Booth holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Manchester, an executive master's degree in public administration from the Australian and New Zealand School of Government, and a diploma in public health from the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Placement: Brown University
Mentors: Vincent Mor, Ph.D.,
Project: Analysis of the Health Care Policy Responses to Population Aging in New Zealand and the United States
Description: Mark Booth looked at the long-term care needs of the elderly population, the associated funding issues, and the policy responses within New Zealand and the United States. He helped develop a survey of long-term care experts in both the U.S. and New Zealand regarding their views on the challenges facing long-term care, funding, linking individuals and services, culture change, and workforce issues.