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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.

Work with us
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Projects

Policy Issues for Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research and Care: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress
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Workplace Constraints and Innovation for Experiential Training of Health Professional Learners: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress

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

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Structural Drivers of Population Health: Exploring Relevant Policy Domains -- A Workshop Series

Workshop

Recently Completed

Enhancing Care and Services for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress

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

Workshop

Recently Completed

Advancing Diagnostic Excellence in Rural Areas: A Workshop

Workshop

In Progress

Innovative Person-Centered Clinical Cancer Research: A Workshop

Workshop

Recently Completed
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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

Finding What Works in Health Care: Updating Standards for Systematic Reviews

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Progress

Strategic Plan and Blueprint for Addressing Thalassemia in the United States

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Assessment of Department of Veterans Affairs Physical and Mental Health Examinations and the Department's Schedule of Rating Disabilities for Disability Compensation Claims Related to Military Sexual Trauma

Consensus/Advisory Activity

In Progress

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
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