acting director
e-mail: gaal@emk.sote.hu
phone: +36-1+488-7618
Peter is an associate professor of health policy at the Health Services Management Training Centre, Faculty of Health and Public Administration, Semmelweis University, Budapest. Since June 2010 he is also the acting director of the Health Services Management Training Centre, and the acting dean of the Faculty of Health and Public Administration.
Dr. Gaál graduated as a medical doctor in 1993 at Semmelweis Medical University, and he also holds an M.Sc. degree in health services management, and a Ph.D. in health policy, both from the University of London. With one of his publications on informal payment for health care, he won the joint Karolinska award of the European Health Management Association and the Karolinska Medical Management Centre in 2005, which is awarded annually for the best publication prepared from a PhD thesis. He was the director of the Centre’s own masters program in health services management between 1996 and 2000, during which period the program was established and gained widespread recognition in Hungary. He is the course organizer of the Health Policy module in the frame of the masters program, and has been working on several national and international education, research and consultancy projects since 1995. His areas of expertise include various health policy topics, in particular health financing, health care reforms and system management development.