On March 30, 2015, the Department of Health Policy hosted its second Research into Policy and Practice Lecture, “Politics & Policy: Can they live together?” in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College.
The distinguished panelists included the Honorable Phil Bredesen, former governor of Tennessee, and Jeffrey Selberg, the Executive Director of the Peterson Center on Healthcare.
Governor Bredesen spoke on the approach researchers can take to help shape health policy and the politics behind the policy.
“We live in a country, America, that has an unequal capacity to do research,” he said. “But connecting that research to achieving America’s goals has been more difficult. And I think it’s going to take the research community to take the lead in making that happen.”
Mr. Selberg discussed the Peterson Foundation’s mission for the Peterson Center on Healthcare, including its goal to shape and improve the healthcare delivery system in the United States.
The Department of Health Policy’s chair, Dr. Melinda Buntin, and the RWJF Center for Health Policy’s Executive Director, Dr. Dexter Samuels, moderated the discussion.
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