John Peabody is an international leader in measuring and improving the quality of clinical care, health policy, and health economics. He has contributed more than 200 articles and abstracts on these subjects, publishing in peer-reviewed literature, books and periodicals. He has spoken regularly on the economic benefits of standardizing practice in healthcare systems around the world, in the US and before the US Congress.

Dr. Peabody developed the globally adopted standard for measuring clinical practice variation, by developing a software tool that simulates a patient visit and provides detailed feedback and benchmarking for all types of practitioners. In 2012, he took his research and academic innovation into the private sector to found and then lead QURE Healthcare. QURE grew into a multi-million-dollar enterprise that was acquired in 2021. Dr. Peabody used the proceeds from his sale to start a foundation—Peabody Health Philanthropies (PHP).  Today, PHP standardizes clinical practice and lowers the cost of care in underserved communities around the world.  PHP caries out this mission by actively working with in-country partners to build locally owned, sustainable projects that save lives.

Dr. Peabody currently has faculty appointments at UCSF and UCLA and has served the academic and global community in a host of capacities. He is the past CMO and clinical lead at Sg2, and a former Senior Researcher at the RAND Graduate School. Dr. Peabody has previously worked as an executive of Amgen, advised the Gates Foundation, the World Bank and WHO, and been a senior advisor to Autism Speaks. A Stanford University graduate, he received his MD from UCSF, his diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene (DTM&H) from the University of London, and his Master of Philosophy and PhD in public policy (health economics) from the RAND Graduate School.