The Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine is conducting an open-rank search for ASSISTANT, ASSOCIATE or FULL PROFESSORS with expertise in health policy.

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How low-income older adults and people with disabilities manage their health care and navigate complicated policy and insurance plans can be challenging. Federal Medicare programs cover medical needs for millions of older Americans while state Medicaid programs cover long-term services and supports for these populations.

The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Sentinel Initiative is designed to use real-world evidence to evaluate the safety and performance of medical products, including drugs, vaccines, biologics and medical devices. Operating under a distributed data model, Sentinel coordinates large-scale pharmacoepidemiologic surveillance studies across multiple data partners (e.g., insurance companies, health systems and academic medical centers), allowing all data to remain in the hands of the data owner.

The department’s health policy efforts extend beyond U.S. borders to improve the health of communities around the globe. Our faculty are conducting epidemiological research in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, working to inform the health care system in the Middle East, and recently have established new agreements to study aspects of public health in South America.