About Health Policy & Management
The Division of Health Policy and Management strives to improve the public's health by stimulating, coordinating, and conducting high quality research and teaching programs that are focused on improving the organization, financing and delivery of health care services -- including preventive, remedial and maintenance care.
Faculty News
HPM Assistant Professor Tetyana Shippee has been awarded a KL2 Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Scholar award, 2011-2013. This award provides salary and research assistant support from NIH (National Institutes of Health) through the University’s CTSI Program. As a part of this award, Shippee will be designing an intervention to improve resident-reported quality of life in long-term care. For more information on CTSI KL2 awards, go to:
http://www.ctsi.umn.edu/edu/kl2.shtml
William Riley, Associate Dean of the School of Public Health and HPM Associate Professor has designed a certificate program to address the timely need to develop capacity in public health organizations with regard to performance improvement. In the inaugural year of the Performance Improvement Certificate program, 19 public health professionals from various organizations across the country, representing four states, and others interested in furthering their competency in quality improvement concepts and techniques have enrolled. For information and a description of the program go to:
http://www.sph.umn.edu/programs/certificate/piph/index.asp
HPM Professor Jon Christianson is currently serving on a National Academy of Sciences/ Institute of Medicine Committee on Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment. The Phase I report of the Committee--"Improving Accuracy"-- has been released and is available at http://www.nap.edu. The Committee is now constructing its Phase 2 report, which will be released in the spring of 2012 and will consider the role of Medicare payments in addressing matters such as the distribution of the health care workforce, population health, and the ability of providers to produce high-value, high-quality health care. For more information click:
http://www.startribune.com/local/133409608.html?page=all&prepage=1
Upcoming Events
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Featured Events
- Minnesota 16th Annual Health Services Research Conferenceon Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at the Continuing Education and Conference Center, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota, St. Paul.
- Seminar Series, "Long‐term Declines in ADLs, IADLs, and Mobility
among Older Medicare Beneficiaries" Fredric D. Wolinsky, PhD, October 28, 2011, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., 2-137 Jackson Hall
See Flyer - HPM Wednesday Series
The next seminar, "Immigrants' Access to Care Under the Affordable Care Act: The Role of States in Addressing Coverage Gaps" will be presented by Jessie Kemmick Pintor, Doctoral Student, Health Services Research, Policy and Administration Program, on April 27, 2011, 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., D325/327 Mayo Building
Health Policy and Management
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