Biography
Dr. Garber was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 2007 with a B.A. in Linguistics. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., covering politics and health policy. He then attended Harvard Medical School and completed his general surgery training at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2021.
He worked with the World Bank's Middle East and North Africa health team, conducted health system research in Iraq and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, and earned an MPH during his residency at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Drawing upon his journalism and public health backgrounds, his research interests have focused on assessing the effectiveness of large-scale health interventions in conflict-affected countries and improving healthcare for civilian populations in these settings.
Over the past five years, he has provided technical and data analytical support to World Bank collaborations with WHO and UNICEF in Yemen and South Sudan, focusing on strengthening data collection and analyses to assess programming impact and healthcare delivery better. His work incorporates complex household and facility-based survey design, geospatial analysis, quality and cost assessments, and other rapid data collection and longitudinal data analysis approaches.
Clinically, Dr. Garber's interests span the full spectrum of acute care surgery, surgical critical care, and trauma surgery, with a particular interest in caring for complex and critically ill surgical patients and UCSF/ZSFG's commitment to healthcare equity. Reflecting on his fellowship experience at UCSF, he says, "I am so grateful to the incredibly dedicated group of skilled, thoughtful surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurse practitioners, and staff who have trained me here, and I am thrilled to be staying on as part of this family."
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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UCLA General Surgery Residency Program | General Surgery | 06/2021 | |
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | MPH | 05/2017 | |
Harvard Medical School | MD | 05/2014 |
Publications
- Balanced resuscitation: the role during non-massive hemorrhage.| | PubMed
- Can Armenia's refugee crisis catalyse health-system reforms?| | PubMed
- Diaspora engagement: a scoping review of diaspora involvement with strengthening health systems of their origin country.| | PubMed
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on pediatric trauma in Southern California.| | PubMed
- Effectiveness of hospital payment reforms in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.| | PubMed
- Protecting healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic: respirator shortages and health policy responses in South America.| | PubMed
- Estimating access to health care in Yemen, a complex humanitarian emergency setting: a descriptive applied geospatial analysis.| | PubMed
- Structural inequities in the global supply of personal protective equipment.| | PubMed
- Applying trauma systems concepts to humanitarian battlefield care: a qualitative analysis of the Mosul trauma pathway.| | PubMed
- A Consensus Framework for the Humanitarian Surgical Response to Armed Conflict in 21st Century Warfare.| | PubMed
- The Heterogeneity of Global Pediatric Surgery: Defining Needs and Opportunities Around the World.| | PubMed
- Xenophobia as a determinant of health: an integrative review.| | PubMed
- Assessing health systems in unrecognised states: lessons from the field.| | PubMed
- A Framework for a Battlefield Trauma System for Civilians.| | PubMed
- Attitudes Toward Morbidity and Mortality Conferences Among Medical and Surgical Pediatric Specialists in Armenia.| | PubMed
- Beyond a Moral Obligation: A Legal Framework for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anesthesia.| | PubMed