Faculty

Background and Expertise:

Howard S. Berliner is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management. Prior to coming to Downstate, he was Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Milano Graduate School of New School University and Director of the PHD program. He previously served as the Assistant State Health Commissioner for New Jersey.

He is the author of seven books, most recently The Health Marketplace: New York City 1990-2010 (with Eli Ginzberg et al.), Transaction Press, N.J. 2001. In addition he is the author of numerous articles and reviews on health policy issues in academic and professional Journals.

He holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Vermont, an MBA from the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University (Sloan Program in Health Administration), and a Doctor of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He has done consulting work for a number of organizations including hospitals, managed care organizations, labor unions, universities, government agencies, and voluntary health agencies.

His current research focuses on access to care for vulnerable populations and the uninsured. In particular he is interested in the future of the hospital as a major delivery modality of health care services. He is at work on a book on the rise and fall of the hospital in the United States which looks at the circumstances which gave rise to the modern hospital and pushed it to the center of the delivery system and the more recent events which seem to be moving back to the periphery of health care delivery.

He is involved in a study for the New York Community Trust of the possibility of stand-alone emergency rooms and trauma centers in urban areas. ($60,000).

He is studying the growth of medical tourism, both to and from the United States and its implications for health reform and health policy going forward.

He is also interested in the mechanisms of regulatory control of health care expenditures in the United States, particularly the use of Certificate of Need Regulations to control the dissemination of health care capital.

Recent Publications:

Berliner HS. The movement of services out of the hospital. Int J Health Serv. 2008;38(4):625-39. PMID: 19069284 [PubMed - in process]

Berliner HS. The crisis of the Los Angeles County public hospital system: a harbinger for the nation. Int J Health Serv. 2004;34(2):313-22. PMID: 15242161 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Berliner HS, Ginzberg E. Why this hospital nursing shortage is different. JAMA. 2002 Dec 4;288(21):2742-4. No abstract available. PMID: 12460099 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Berliner HS, Kovner CT, Reimers C. The health care workforce in Los Angeles County and New York City: a comparison and analysis. Int J Health Serv. 2002;32(2):299-313. PMID: 12067033 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]