Dan Schwarz
Dan Schwarz
Dan Schwarz, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, is responsible for the organization’s technical and strategic expertise. Dr. Schwarz is a physician leader with more than 20 years of experience in building organizations and leading teams to strengthen health care delivery. Dr. Schwarz’s work has focused on supporting public sector government health systems to improve their primary and referral level health care, specifically for the most marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Prior to joining MSH, Dr. Schwarz was the Director of Primary Health Care at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he led the team’s work globally, including as a founding partner of the Primary Health Care Performance Initiative. Previously, Dr. Schwarz was the founding Executive Director, and, subsequently, the Chief Medical Officer for the Nepali organization Possible. Over eleven years, Dr. Schwarz helped lead an innovative public private partnership for healthcare delivery, eventually serving more than one million people in some of the most remote and underserved districts of the country. Before his work in Nepal, Dr. Schwarz worked for Partners In Health in multiple countries, and several other non-governmental organizations throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia.
Dr. Schwarz is a general internist and pediatrician from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, where he continues his clinical practice. He serves on the teaching faculty at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schwarz completed his undergraduate training at Vassar College, his MD at Brown University, and his MPH at Harvard University.
Publications by Dan Schwarz
The Obligation of Hope: Reflections on One Year at MSH
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Putting Patients at the Center to Strengthen Primary Health Care
