In fall 2020, 9% of Tennessee children were uninsured, more than twice the level at the same time in 2019, according to a new

A new working paper by John Graves, PhD, associate professor of Health Policy and director for the Vanderbilt Center for Health Economic Modeling uses existing research and data to produce a new statistical model that can determine how many people would gain or lose coverage based on policy proposals.  The paper, which has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, can be viewed here.  

   

Just a year after its founding as an online channel of information, the Journal of the American Medical Association’s (JAMA’s) Health Forum will become a full-fledged journal in Jan. 2021. Melinda Buntin, PhD, Mike Curb professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is deputy editor of the journal.

A new Vanderbilt-designed prediction model may make it easier to determine which infants will go on to develop neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a drug withdrawal syndrome in newborns that occurs after exposure to opioids during pregnancy.

Until recently, most Tennesseans wouldn’t know who Mary-Margaret Fill, MD, was or what she did as a leading epidemiologist at the Tennessee Department of Health. Then a pandemic happened.

Tennessee areas where mask requirements were instituted over the summer have substantially lower death rates due to COVID-19 as compared to areas without mask requirements, according to a new analysis by Vanderbilt Department of Health Policy researchers.

 

COVID-19 spreads faster and more widely throughout U.S. households than previously reported, according to new preliminary research from a multicenter study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers and published in MMWR, a weekly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

All areas of Tennessee have seen a resurgence in hospitalized COVID-19 patients since early October, but hospitals that draw patients from counties without masking requirements are experiencing much sharper increases, according to