Harkness Project Title: Indigenous Disparities in Health Status: A Cross-Country Comparison Between New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States

Mentor: Mark R. Chassin, M.D.

Placement: Mount Sinai-New York University Medical Center and Health System

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: 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.

Current Position: CEO, Waitemata District Health Board. (Updated July 2011)

E-Mail: dale.bramley@waitematadhb.govt.nz

Harkness Related Publications

Hosking J, Ameratunga S, Bramley D, Crengle S. Reducing ethnic disparities in the quality of trauma care: an important research gap. Annuals of Surgery. 2011 Feb;253(2):233-7. Review.

Bramley D, Hebert P, Tuzzio L, Chassin M. “Disparities in Indigenous Health: A Cross-Country Comparison between New Zealand and the United States,” American Journal of Public Health, 2005; 95: 844-850.

Bramley D, Hebert P, Jackson R, Chassin M. “Indigenous Disparities in Disease-Specific Mortality, a Cross-Country Comparison: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States,” N Z Med J 2004; 117(1207).