Center for Health Policy ResearchWho We AreThe Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR), founded in 1990, is dedicated to providing policymakers, public health officials, health care administrators and advocates with the information and ideas they need to improve access to quality, affordable health care. As a key component of the Department of Health Policy, CHPR has a research and policy agenda that spans a wide range of timely topics mirroring our areas of study; this provides maximum research-based learning for students. Who We AreThe Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR), founded in 1990, is dedicated to providing policymakers, public health officials, health care administrators and advocates with the information and ideas they need to improve access to quality, affordable health care and to improve health. Our faculty and research staff include seasoned health policy and public health researchers, economists, lawyers, clinicians, advocates, and former federal and state policy officials. As a key component of the Department of Health Policy, CHPR has a research and policy agenda that spans a wide range of timely topics mirroring our areas of study; this provides maximum research-based learning for students. What We DoThe Center's research activities are designed to develop practical solutions to real-world problems, to inform public debate and to assist all stakeholders in the policymaking process, based on solid, rigorous evidence. Our work emphasizes research aimed at strengthening health coverage and access, improving health care for low-income, medically underserved and vulnerable populations and strengthening the health care safety net, reducing health disparities, upgrading health information technology, tackling complex problems that are found at the intersection of public health and health care, and bolstering the health care workforce. Our research scope spans national, state, local, and sometimes even transnational issues. The Center's research serves as the training ground for new leaders in health services and public health research and policy. In order to transfer its research and policy expertise to those who need them, CHPR faculty and staff:
Research ActivitiesThe Center for Health Policy Research is home to several extensive policy-based programs representing national initiatives of major foundations.
Some of our Key areas of research in the CHPR include:
FacultyAt the core of CHPR's research and policy initiatives are the faculty and staff of the Department, whose academic training has been bolstered by professional experiences in government service, law, public health, clinical practice, management, research, and politics. Together they have dedicated hundreds of person-years of work on virtually every cutting-edge issue in U.S. health policy today. Contact UsCenter for Health Policy Research Director: Leighton Ku, PhD |
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