Public Lecture: Research-informed health policy: turning data into information to guide policy and improve health
Presenters: Dr Robert L. Phillips & Dr Andrew Bazemore, Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington DC
Date: Wed 4 April, 2 -- 3pm
Venue: Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU
Health care reform in the US is well underway despite political and legal challenges. Experiments in expanding access to healthcare while simultaneously bending the cost curve are underway. Drs. Phillips and Bazemore will discuss some of these, including Accountable Care Organizations and Patient Centered Medical Homes, and review some of the evidence about improved quality and reduced costs. They will also demonstrate tools that the Robert Graham Center has developed for federal and state governments to turn data into information about where care is delivered, where to put new resources more effectively, where disparities reduce health, and where resources are needed to reduce costs as new people receive health insurance. They will also review related collaborations with the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute.
Bob Phillips became Director of the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in 2004. He trained in medicine at the University of Florida and completed family medicine training and an MSPH in health services research at the University of Missouri. He is a Professor at Georgetown University and a Clinical Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Between 2006 and 2010 he was Vice Chair of the US Council on Graduate Medical Education and continues as a technical and policy advisor to the US Department of Health and Human Services. He was elected to the US Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science in 2010.
Andrew Bazemore became Medical Director for Health Policy Research at the Robert Graham Center in 2005. He trained in medicine at the University of North Carolina, completed vocational training as a family physician at the University of Cincinnati, and an MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is an Associate Professor at both Georgetown and Virginia Commonwealth Universities. He co-directs the Health Policy Research Fellowship with Georgetown University and oversees a successful research portfolio that includes funding from federal and philanthropic sources.
The Robert Graham Center aims to improve individual and population health by enhancing the delivery of primary care. The Center is a division of the American Academy of Family Physicians, and is tasked with conducting research and analysis to inform deliberations of the Academy in its public policy work and to provide a family medicine perspective to policy deliberations in Washington, D.C.
This lecture is brought to you by the Australian Primary Health Care Research Institute at the Australian National University. For more information or to download the presentation slides, visit: http://aphcri.anu.edu.au/lectures-presentations.
