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May 2, 2013 | Program Result Report
Scholars in Health Policy Research builds a field of creative thinkers in the field of health policy. Recent graduates of PhD programs in economics, political science, and sociology study health policy at one of three universities for two years.
June 15, 2011 | Story
Asked whether he thought his taste for variety reflected the multiple questions primary care throws at practitioners, he laughed. "I think it reflects the fact that I'm instinctively a dilettante."
National Program
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology.
April 1, 2010 | Story
In 1995, Morone applied for and won his first RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research to study "Moralism, Politics, and the Construction of Health Policy."
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines 53 diseases over 19 years to better understand how disease advocacy has impacted funding distributions, changed the perceived beneficiaries of policies, promoted metrics for commensuration, and made culture categories of worth more relevant to policy-making.
April 11, 2012 | Journal Article
A new initiative of the Affordable Care Act known as accountable care organizations, received final rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
April 11, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examined the role of bias in treatment decisions close to 1,000 physicians chose hypothetical treatments for colon cancer and avian flu the physicians either chose a treatment they would want for themselves or made a recommendation for a patient.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A broad look at decades of health policy successes and failures in Congress.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A drinking age of 18 is associated with slightly higher rates of low birth weight and premature babies, with babies born to black women affected more. Stricter drinking policies also may have unintended positive consequences a range of effects of lowering the drinking age should be considered before any policy changes are made.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study examining the influence of imagery associating type 2 diabetes with different causalities and racial groups on research spending preferences and stereotypes about diabetes found that subtle changes in media messages can change public opinion about federal funding for treatment and prevention.