Bernard Bright Davies-Teye, MPH, is a graduate research assistant in the Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research (PHSR) at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.
About Bernard Bright:
Bernard Bright Davies-Teye earned a bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Ghana Medical School and Master of Public Health with a concentration in epidemiology and disease control from the University of Ghana School of Public Health.
After graduating from the School of Public Health, he worked as a municipal director in the Ghana Health Service (GHS) from 2012 to 2019, and concurrently managed the Global Fund Sponsored-Tuberculosis Program in Greater Accra Ghana, during which he spearheaded remarkable improvement in disease preventive, patient-centered and health system infrastructure indicators.
Research Experience:
Bernard Bright's interest in health economics (pharmacoeconomics) and patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) was piqued during his master’s degree program, for which his dissertation evaluated the Phase I of Global Funds Affordable Medicine Facility for malaria (AMFm) project in Ghana. While working with the Ghana Health Service, he led cholera epidemic and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis infection cost-outcome and risk factor studies in Greater Accra, Ghana.
After joining the PhD in PHSR program, he worked with Drs. C. Daniel Mullins and Eberechukwu Onukwugha during his fall 2019 and spring 2020 research rotations, respectively. His work with The PATIENTS Program focused on the learning PCOR system. He worked with Dr. Mullins to formulate qualitative questions to ascertain factors that enhance patient engagement, participation in PCOR, and PCOR information sharing and usage among learning PCOR stakeholders (e.g., patients, health system administrators, community leaders, and PCOR researchers).
He is currently working with Dr. Onukwugha to determine the relationship between perceived discrimination and cost-related non-utilization of health care services among Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) study participants in six states in the United States.
Contact Information:
To contact Bernard Bright:
- Email him at bdavies-teye@umaryland.edu.