David H. Peters is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a specialist in international health systems, and has worked as a researcher, policy advisor, educator, bureaucrat, manager, and clinician over the last two decades. He serves as Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee for the STRIPE project.

Previously, he worked as a Senior Public Health Specialist at the World Bank, and as Director of the Health Systems Program at Johns Hopkins. He is Research Director for the Future Health Systems research consortium. He pioneered the development of Sector Wide Approaches in health, and created the first national Balanced Scorecard to assess and manage health services (in Afghanistan), while writing seven books and over 100 articles.

His teaching and research focuses on the performance of health systems, implementation research methods, poverty and health systems, innovations in organization, technology, and financing of health systems, the role of the private sector, human resource management, and ways to use donor assistance to strengthen local capacity in low-income countries.