National Clinician Scholar Program @UCSF
The National Clinician Scholar Program (NCSP) at UCSF is housed within IHPS. The successful program recently welcomed its fifth cohort of scholars.
Scholars in this cohort will research:
- state-level policies focusing on reducing healthcare disparities and improving access to care for systemically disadvantaged populations;
- improving quality, safety, and equity in pediatric hospital care using electronic health record data, clinical informatics, and advanced analytics;
- investigating gaps in care and developing interventions to improve the quality and equity of reproductive and sexual health care in the Emergency Department;
- exploring how social and structural adversities, trauma, and violence influence mental health and resilience in marginalized youth transitioning to adulthood;
- the sequelae of oppressive systems affecting underrepresented communities' health outcomes;
- integrating social and medical care to improve wellbeing at a population level;
- investigating injury and violence prevention strategies with a specific focus on hospital-based violence intervention programs;
- examining the Veterans Health Administration's method of adopting emerging medical technologies and developing policies to promote their sustainable utilization; and
- improving access to surgical care for low income and vulnerable populations, with a focus on thoracic surgery.
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Dr. Nguyen is a substance use researcher whose research program focuses on reducing the use of tobacco and cannabis and related health disparities among priority populations (e.g., youth and young adults, sexual minorities, and people with substance use disorders). Dr. Nguyen has employed a variety of research methods (e.g., human-centered design, ecological momentary assessment, and mixed methods) to address important issues in tobacco and cannabis use.
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Abortion Access and Drug Pricing
Abortion access and drug pricing are currently making headlines. These are areas IHPS faculty have a long history of researching. Abortion access is on the ballot in several states, with states implementing varying policies with the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 with the Dobbs decision. Recently, Claire Brindis, DrPH, and colleagues published on the consequences of the Dobbs decision on almost every facet of the medical workforce, including on physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others who work within the health-care system in The Lancet.
The Biden administration recently unveiled the first ten drugs whose prices will be negotiated under the Inflation Reduction Act's Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. Recent research by Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH, Gabriela Schmajuk, MD and colleagues looks at biosimilar drug adoption - biosimilars can reduce the spending on biologic drugs - by major U.S. insurers. Their findings showed that policy levers to speed adoption among Medicare beneficiaries are needed.
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From Bench to Bill: The Story of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act
IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds
Dorry Segev, MD, PhD,
Professor of Surgery and Population Health
Vice Chair of Surgery, New York University
Sep 4, 2024, 12 - 1 pm PT
481 16th Street, Room 208 (Jade)
"When I started this journey in 2010, transplanting an organ from a person with HIV was illegal in the United States, as stipulated by the National Organ Transplant Act. This is the story of conducting research to show the need for HIV-to-HIV transplants, writing the HOPE Act and carrying it through Congress and the President, performing the first HIV-to-HIV transplants, garnering NIH funding to study this across the country, and learning not only about HIV-to-HIV transplants but also HIV virology and the experience of living with HIV."
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IHPS + IMPACT Health Policy Series
Policy and Private Insurance
Janet Coffman, PhD
Professor, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
IHPS Policy Co-Director
Beth Griffiths, MD
Professor, Medicine, UCSF
IHPS Policy Co-Director
Sep 11, 2024, 12 - 1 pm PT
Zoom information here
Based on popular request, this fall we will host sessions on key topics in health policy, including both a basics ("101") and current updates component. The sessions are designed to be complementary, but you need not attend all to learn from attending one! Plus, they're all recorded and available on the IHPS website.
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Valerie Flaherman:
(UC Net)
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Follow IHPS on LinkedIn
IHPS has recently begun using LinkedIn. Please follow us at the link below! We will be sharing valuable updates regarding the work the IHPS community is engaged in, insights on current health policy-related matters, and information regarding IHPS-related events regularly.
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Philip R. Lee Fellowship Fund Endowed | |
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Since its founding 50 years ago, IHPS has been dedicated to training the next generation of leaders in interdisciplinary research to solve our most important health policy issues. In celebration of our 50th anniversary and to honor our founders, Phil Lee and Lew Butler, we established an endowment fund for the Philip R. Lee Fellowship. We are pleased to announce the fund has been endowed! We hope to continue to keep this fund and our fellowship program robust.
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Photo: Kim Felder Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH & Fellow for 2007-2008 with Philip R. Lee, MD, Founder of the Institute for Health Policy Studies | | | | |
