Past:
1991-1994 United States Agency for International Development, Principal Investigator, Data for Decision Making Project

1994-1995 The Rockefeller Foundation, Principal Investigator, Framing an Urban Health Initiative

1995-1998 Principal Investigator, Data for Decision Making Subcontract from Harvard University to the University of California, Berkeley

Current:
1997-2000 Principal Investigator, Enhancing Analytical Skills, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Dept. of Health and Human Services

1997-1999 Principal Investigator, Packard Foundation, Using Economic Analyses to Set Priorities for Family Planning and Reproductive Health

1997-1998 Principal Investigator, Packard Foundation, Household Spending for Family Planning

1998-2001 Principal Investigator UCB subcontract for NIEHS study: Farm Work and Preterm LowBirth Weight Deliveries among Hispanic Women

Data-based Decision Making for Health Policy Universidad de Cayetano Heredia Faculted de Medicine. Invited Lecture. May 13.

Methods for Cost-effectiveness Analysis. Workshop organized and led, Cairo Egypt 4&5 June.

International Society of Technology Assessment in health Care: How Efficient are Health Services in Egypt? San Francisco, 26, June.

Cost Analysis in the Family Health Outcomes Project Workshop: Managed Care and Public Health: Assessing the Cost/Measuring the Benefits Sept 16&17.

Cost and Efficiency in Hospitals. Workshop organized in Port Said, Egypt 8-10 Oct.

Methods for Effectiveness Assessment. Workshop led, Cairo, Egypt 14 Oct.

March 24 presentation at USAID with Professor Malcolm Potts on the Costs of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Services.

Invited Participant in the International Challenges of Health and Education at the American College of Physicians, March 23, 1997.

Health Priorities based on Cost-effectiveness Analysis: Presentation La Paz, Bolivia; sponsored by PROCOSI (network of non-governmental organizations), UNICEF, and USAID; La Paz, Bolivia, April 2.

Cost Analysis for Improving Efficiency- organized and led workshop; PROCOSI (non-governmental organizations network); La Paz, Bolivia, March30 & April 1.

Organized and led Cost Analysis in Maternal and Child Health, University of California Workshop on Quantitative Analysis for Public Health Professionals, May.

Health Priorities for Egypt. Presentation for the Minster of Health and Population and Senior Ministry staff. Cairo, Egypt, September 23.

Why the MOHP is Interested in Increasing Efficiency in Health Services. Presented as part of the Workshop on Cost Analysis and Efficiency Indicators for Health Care. Data for Decision Making Project and Ministry of Health and Population Egypt, Alexandria, Egypt, September 24-26.

Cost-effectiveness and Efficiency in the Egyptian Health System. UC Davis School of Medicine. October 22.

American Public Health Association Meeting Panel Convener: 1994 Cairo Population Conference Followup: Shrinking Funds and Programs for Family Planning and Reproductive Health, Nov 10.

American Public Health Association Meeting Presentation on The Need for Rigor in Health Economics Policy Development in the Panel entitled: Perspective on Changes in International Health Policy Resulting from the Entry of Economists in the Field 1970-1997. Nov 13.

Presented ‘Costs of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Programs’ in Panel entitled Understanding Population Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Feb 15, Philadelphia.

Chair: Ethical and Legal Perspectives Session, Peder Sather Symposium IV, Impact of New Technology on Health and Health Care Systems: An International Perspective, March 5-6, University of California, Berkeley.

Organized Workshop on Economic Evaluation, Association of Maternal and Child Health Professionals, March 7, Washington, D.C.

Presented Cost Analysis of a Maternal and Child Health Clinic at the Summer Institute on Monitoring and Evaluation of Population, Health and Nutrition Programs. Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, NC, June 16.

Presented Improving the Efficiency of Public Sector Hospitals in Egypt, World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 17.

Presented Economic Evaluation of Community Health Programs at Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, CA June 19.

Presented Cost Inefficiencies and Cost-Effectiveness in Reproductive Health care in Egypt and Bolivia from the Berkeley International Cost Study at Costing Cairo II Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 24.

Visiting Professor, Department of Community Health, School of Medicine, Witwatersrand University, Johannesberg, South Africa August 22-31. Invited lecture: Improving the Efficiency of the Health System in Egypt.

Presented Improving the Efficiency of Egyptian Public Sector Hospitals, Thusano School of Public Health, Pretoria, South Africa August 26.

Presented Egypt Health system: How Inefficient are the Public Hospitals? University of Nebraska, School of Medicine, Omaha, October 1.

Presented: How Much can People Pay for Family Planning? At Costing Cairo III meeting organized by USAID and the POLICY Project, Washington, D.C., October 14 & 15.

UNFPA, New York December 22, 1998: Can Consumers Afford to Pay for Family Planning?

Organized 2 Panels at the Bay Area International Health Conference, Feb 27: Cairo Plus Five and Health Sector Reform in Developing Countries, UC San Francisco, February 27

Presented: Cost-effectiveness Analysis – How and Why? at the International Vitamin A and Consultative Group Conference March 10, Durban, South Africa

Led: Skills Building Workshop at the Association of Maternal and Child Health Professionals Meeting, March 15, on Costs of MCH Services.

Poster: Maternal and Child Health Bureau Distance Learning Consortium. June 30 at the Conference Networking for the 21st Century, Seventh Conference on Distance Learning in Public Health, Bellevue, Washington.

Presented: Doing More With Less at USAID, Washington, D.C. July 12.

Presented: Distance Learning at UC Berkeley at “Partnerships for Promoting Systems of Care for Children and Families” Region IX Maternal and Child Health Meeting, September 1, Federal Building, San Francisco, CA.

Panel Convener: Making Cairo Work Using Limited Resources as Effectively as Possible, November 10: APHA, Chicago, Ill.

Panel Presentation: Goodman S, Walsh J. Prevention of Preterm Delivery by Screening and Treatment of Bacterial Vaginosis in Pregnancy: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Four Intervention Strategies, Nov 10: APHA, Chicago, Ill.

Panel Presentation: Dratler S, Walsh J. The Efficiency of Reproductive Health Services: A case Study from Egypt. Nov 10, APHA, Chicago, Ill.

Three Posters at the Maternal Infant and Child Health Epidemiology Workshop December 8, 1999: 1) Received 2nd Prize for ‘The Cost-Effectiveness of Distance Learning versus Face-to-Face Learning for Maternal and Child Health Continuing Education. 2) Comparison of Traditional Classroom and Distance Learning for Maternal and Child Health Continuing Education. 3) The Effectiveness of Distance Learning Modalities in the Education of Health Professionals: Literature Review.