News & Events | Department of Health Policy

Department Faculty Receive Grant Awards for 2018

September 20, 2018

Laura Keohane recently received two grant funding notices. Laura will lead a TennCare-funded evaluation of whether quality reporting and value-based payment measures have changed health care use and quality for patients who require ventilator and tracheostomy services. TennCare is one of the first Medicaid programs to implement these measures for this high-cost, high-need population. Collaborators on the project include David Stevenson, Wes Ely, Matthew Mart, Shiyuan

Laura Beskow one of new endowed chair holders in A&S, Law, Medicine and Owen honored

September 19, 2018

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/09/18/new-endowed-chair-holders-in-as-law-medicine-and-owen-honored/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20vanderbilt-news%20%28Vanderbilt%20News%29

Applications now open for 2018 Value Based Health Care Delivery Seminar - October 17-18, 2018

September 12, 2018

https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/value-based-healthcare-delivery-seminar

Join Us August 30th for Research Into Policy and Practice Lecture/Department 5th Anniversary Special Event

August 21, 2018

Dr. Melinda Buntin, PhD, testimony to Senate HELP Committee

July 2, 2018

  Dr. Melinda Buntin, PhD, testified on June 27, 2018 before the Senate HELP Committee. Below is a copy of her prepared testimony for the record, with footnotes. 

WATCH FULL HELP SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING - How to Reduce Health Care Costs: Understanding the Cost of Health Care in America

June 28, 2018

https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/how-to-reduce-health-care-costs-understanding-the-cost-of-health-care-in-america

William Schaffner Inducted in 2018 Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame Class

May 16, 2018

Photo courtesy of Belmont University Photographer On May 3, the Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame announced seven health care professionals selected as this year’s inductee class, three of whom have close ties to Vanderbilt.

Join Us This Friday For A Special Health Policy Grand Rounds With United States Surgeon General VADM Jerome M. Adams, MD, MPH

May 16, 2018

  Please join us for a special Health Policy Grand Rounds:   Combatting America’s Opioid Crisis with special guest 

Speakers discuss use of evidence in state health policymaking

April 30, 2018

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2018/04/19/speakers-discuss-use-of-evidence-in-state-health-policymaking/

Health Policy Faculty Take up Key Roles in National ‘All of Us’ Precision Medicine Effort

April 30, 2018

https://www.vumc.org/meharry-vanderbilt/all-news-research-news/wilkins-takes-key-role-national-all-us-precision-medicine-effort