The Impact of COVID-19 Hospitalization Surges on All Tennesseans

January 27, 2022
The Omicron wave of COVID-19 has caused record case numbers and a related surge in hospitalizations across Tennessee. This brief demonstrates how current high numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations affect access to hospitals for every Tennessean, not just those in need of specialized care for COVID-19.

Debi Pinson

Debi
Pinson
Business Process Manager
Health Policy
Phone
615-936-7609
Office Address
2525 WEA
2525 West End Ave.
Suite 1200
Room / Suite
1200
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
debra.pinson@vumc.org

New Study Examines Long-Term Benefit of ‘Two-Midnight Rule’

November 4, 2021
A new Health Affairs study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers raises questions about the long-term benefit and value of the so-called Medicare “Two-Midnight Rule” implemented in 2013 to reduce costly and potentially unnecessary inpatient hospital admissions.

Department conducting targeted search for new faculty position

October 18, 2021
The Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine is conducting a targeted search for an open-rank tenure- or non-tenure-track faculty position with a commitment to and record of research in the areas of health decision sciences and cost-effectiveness analyses.  

WATCH: 2021 Tennessee Emerging Infections Program Scientific Presentation Day

October 13, 2021
The 2021 Tennessee Emerging Infections Program Scientific Presentation Day was held virtually on Oct. 7, 2021. Researchers presented on a variety of disease surveillance topics including COVID-19 vaccines and trends, wastewater surveillance of COVID-19, HPV and foodborne illness. Watch the full event below or on YouTube.   

Mya Roberson, PhD

Mya
Roberson
PhD
Assistant Professor
Health Policy

Mya Roberson is an Assistant Professor in the department of Health Policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Her broad research interests are in applying epidemiologic methods to health policy and health services research to promote health equity using big data. She is specifically interested in equity in cancer care delivery for Black people in the US South. Dr. Roberson has experience working in cancer registries, claims data, national healthcare databases and electronic health records, along with expertise in health disparities, health equity and social epidemiology theory.

Dr. Roberson earned her MSPH and PhD degrees in the field of epidemiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. While at UNC she was a Truman Scholar and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar.

Phone
615-875-2979
Office Address
2525 WEA
2525 West End Ave.
Suite 1200
Room / Suite
1205
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
mya.l.roberson@vumc.org
CV
Roberson CV_2.7.2022.pdf

Cancer Care Delivery, Health Equity, Social Epidemiology

WATCH: Webinar on proposed reforms to Tenncare

August 26, 2021
The Department of Health Policy hosted its Research Into Policy and Practice Lecture Series on Aug. 24, which covered proposed reforms to Tenncare, which would overhaul the state's Medicaid program and replace it with a modified aggregate cap model. Watch the webinar, moderated by Melinda Buntin, PhD, Mike Curb Professor of Health Policy and Chair of the Department here. Panelists include Kinika Young, Senior Director of Health Policy at the Tennessee Justice Center and Mandy Pellegrin, Policy Director at the Sycamore Institute.   
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