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Duke-Margolis Launches in Washington, DC, Welcomes Advisory Board
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Love for Duke, Medical Vocation Inspired Gift
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Following the launch event, a reception provided networking and an opportunity to honor the Center's founder, Robert J. Margolis, MD. Read More.
Watch the conversation between Dr. Margolis and Duke President Richard Brodhead about the inspiration for the Center.
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US Investment in Global Health R&D Saves Lives, Boosts Economy
New report examines opportunities to strengthen US government role in developing global health technologies
Reversing the decline in US investment in developing vaccines, drugs, and other tools to combat neglected diseases and conditions and advancing policy solutions to build new partnerships, leverage expertise, and encourage investment from all sectors, will save lives and increase economic opportunity in low- and middle-income countries, while also creating jobs and boosting the U.S. economy, says a team from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) and DGHI’s Center for Policy Impact in Global Health.
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Reimbursement for Advanced Care Planning Discussions will Improve Quality of Life
How do we ensure that patients have a say in the kind of care they receive at the end of life? That question was put to a test in 2015 when the Center for Medicare and Medicaid services proposed a rule reimbursing physicians for advanced care planning discussions with patients.
A study published in BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care by Don Taylor, Nrupen Bhavsar, Sara Constand and Matthew Harker, all of Duke University, examined public comments on the proposed rule to provide a baseline assessment of public perception of advanced care planning.
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Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, quoted in
Healthcare IT News: Health IT needs more private development. He was also quoted in
AJMC on Reducing Administrative Burdens in Move to Value-Based Care.
Gillian Sanders-Schmidler, PhD, presented a keynote presentation on the Recommendations of the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine at The Fourth Annual Global Health Economics Colloquium, sponsored by the University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, on February 10th.
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June 14-15, 2017
Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
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Duke-Margolis' Washington, DC Staff are at
Duke in DC's new location:
The Duke University office location is in the new
JB Duke Hotel, 230 Science Drive
Durham, NC 27708 (our mailing address remains the same).
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The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy's mission is to improve health and the value of health care by developing and implementing evidence-based policy solutions locally, nationally, and globally.
Our work is focused on three themes:
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If you are interested in supporting health policy research at Duke University,
visit our website.
This newsletter is published monthly by the Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University.
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