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Oversight Unit

Health Care and Public Health Program Area

This program area (HCPH) examines the delivery of preventive, primary, and specialty health care across the life course, focusing on issues such as patient safety, workforce development, and health care financing. Our work also examines public health systems, including surveillance, and promotes population health improvement.

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Extensive series of patients, doctors and nurses of various ages and ethnicities in a modern exam room. Used for: A Long COVID Definition A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences

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About Events Projects Publications/Resources News and updates

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Advancing Value-Based Payment for People with Serious Illness to Align Financing with Quality: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed
A nurse is reading a book next to a an old patient who is holding a cup and looking over at the book.

The Early Relational Health Determinants of Future Health and Well-Being

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Advancing Child and Youth Health Care System Transformation: A Workshop Series

Workshop

Recently Completed

Innovative Person-Centered Clinical Cancer Research: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed
A senior couple meets with their doctor at the medical building.

Developing and Sustaining Effective Interprofessional Primary Care Teams

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Strategies and Interventions to Strengthen Support for Family Caregiving and to Alleviate Caregiver Burden: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed

Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Addressing Thalassemia in the United States

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Advancing Health Care Professional Education and Training in Diagnostic Excellence: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed

A Workshop: Why is it Challenging to Measure Reproductive Health Equity and What are Promising Practices?

Workshop

Recently Completed

Innovations in Pharmacy Training and Practice To Advance Patient Care: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed

Best Practices for Implementation and Evaluation of a Suicide Prevention Grants Program: A Workshop and Meeting of Experts

Workshop

Recently Completed

Response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies Proposed Rule

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Projects

Health Care Financing to Improve Availability of Affordable Contraception: Identifying Promising Practices

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Formation

Review of Methods in the Report on Carcinogens Handbook

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Formation
Close-up of a someone holding a pen and reviewing a document.

Exploring Relevant Policy Domains — Housing Policy and Population Health: A Workshop

Workshop

In Formation
Top down aerial view of Chicago Downtown urban grid with park. Late afternoon light.

Exploring Opportunities to Improve Patient Access to Care through Strategic Changes to Graduate Medical Education: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress
A small group of medical student residents gather around a boardroom table to to meet with their medical team lead. They each have cases out on front of them as they work together collaboratively to discuss each one. They are each dressed professionally in medical scrubs and are listening attentively to the doctor leading the meeting at the head of the table.

Health Care and Public Health Program Area

Oversight Unit

In Progress
Extensive series of patients, doctors and nurses of various ages and ethnicities in a modern exam room. Used for: A Long COVID Definition A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences

Artificial Intelligence and the Medical Record in the Context of Social Security Disability Evaluations: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress
A doctor using a tablet and laptop.

Epidemiologic Study on the Health of Veterans Who Served at Fort McClellan, 1979-1999

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Formation

Engaging Patients to Advance Diagnostic Excellence: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress

Requirements for Pulmonary Function Testing in Social Security Disability Evaluations

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Formation

Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery and Late Effects for Social Security Disability Evaluation

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Progress

Overall Aircraft Cabin Air Quality

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Formation

Response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CY 2026 Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies Proposed Rule

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Exploring Relevant Policy Domains — Tax Policy and Population Health: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress

Exploring Relevant Policy Domains — Labor Policy and Population Health: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress

Advancing Value-Based Payment for People with Serious Illness to Align Financing with Quality: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed
A nurse is reading a book next to a an old patient who is holding a cup and looking over at the book.
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