University of Washington Department of Global Health

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Economics

University of Washington

Resource Center for Health Policy
The mission of the Resource Center is to improve the quality of health policy analysis and decision-making at the national, regional, and state levels by increasing the objectivity and rigor of accessible policy-relevant research and information, and by facilitating and supporting informed dialogue about important health policy issues. This mission will be accomplished by facilitating, initiating, and disseminating health policy research around a theme of translating science and technology into health policy research and practice.

Community Health Advancement Program (CHAP) began at the University of Washington in 1980 as an organization created to nurture the ideas and goals of health care students interested in working with medically underserved populations.

Student Providers Aspiring to Rural and Underserved Experience (SPARX) is a multidisciplinary effort of the University of Washington Schools of Health Sciences that encourages health profession students to consider practice in rural and urban medically underserved communities and to promote effective team work across disciplines. Activities bring together students in the schools of social work, medicine (including MEDEX), nursing, pharmacy, public health and community medicine and dentistry to offer students experiences to learn about and work with medically underserved populations while they are in their training.

Research Assistant Professor Gloria D. Coronado, PhD, MS
Epidemiology
gcoronad@fhcrc.org
Dr. Coronado is involved in research on health disparities and health promotion in the Latino population. She is involved in several studies that develop and test innovative strategies to reduce the risk for cancer, or reduce exposure to environmental toxicants.

Professor Douglas A. Conrad, PhD, MBA, MHA
Health Services
dconrad@u.washington.edu
Dr. Conrad's teaching focuses on risk and insurance principles and managerial finance in health services and managed care, primarily in the MHA and PhD programs of the Department of Health Services. His current research examines the effects of financial incentives on health care quality, physician compensation models in physician group practices, conceptual development and performance of integrated health systems, and the outcomes of community care networks in the United States .

Research Assistant Professor, Chuan-Fen Liu, PhD, MPH
Health Services
fliu@u.washington.edu
Research interests include: health economics, mental health, risk adjustment, and outcomes research.

Associate Professor Anne Sales, PhD, MSN, RN
Health Services
asales@u.washington.edu
Research interests include: the economics and financing of health care services; workforce supply and demand; interaction between health care professionals, organizations, and outcomes.

Adjunct Professor Carolyn A. Watts , PhD, MA
Dept. of Economics and The Evans School
watts@u.washington.edu
Carolyn Watts has been a member of the faculty since 1975 and is affiliated with the Master of Health Administration Program. She holds adjunct appointments in the Evans School of Public Affairs, the Department of Economics and is core faculty in the Institute for Public Health Genetics. Dr. Watts teaches in the area of health economics, health policy, and effective writing. Her research is broad-based, and includes work on access to health insurance, reimbursement, and health care market structure.

Senior Lecturer William E. Welton, DrPH, MHA
wwelton@u.washington.edu
Research interests include: o rganization of health care markets and relationship to overall per capita costs.

Professor Thomas M. Wickizer, PhD, MA, MPH, MSW
tomwick@u.washington.edu
Research interests include: health economics, managed care costs and outcomes, occupational health, quality improvement, expenditure growth, economic outcomes of substance abuse treatment.

Seattle Area

MEDTAP Institute (International institute with a Seattle branch office)
MEDTAP's mission is to enable decision-makers to efficiently allocate health care resources and to improve the quality of health care outcomes around the world. We provide clients with authoritative, impartial and timely information about the clinical, economic and social impact of disease and technology to prevent and treat disease.

Earth Economics is devoted to promoting ecosystem health and ecological economics and to halting the globalization of unsustainable economic policies. Focusing on the vital areas of toxics, forests, fisheries and global trade policy, we achieve our goals through organization, education and advocacy.

Initiative for Global Development (International, but based in Seattle)
IGD, Business Leaders Working to End Poverty, is a nationwide alliance of private sector leaders who are working to make global poverty elimination a high priority among national policymakers.

Village Reach
Founded in Seattle in 2000, VillageReach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization working to improve health and quality of life in the most remote areas of developing countries. By addressing “last mile” healthcare logistics and infrastructure, VillageReach empowers governments and local partners to bring healthcare and other essential services to those who most desperately need them: the rural poor.

International

Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), University of Pennsylvania (USA) is the center of the University of Pennsylvania 's activities and programs in health services research, health policy, and health care management executive education. LDI works to improve the health of the public through multidisciplinary studies on the medical, economic, social, and ethical issues that influence how health care is organized, financed, managed, and delivered. LDI represents one of the earliest efforts to promote collaborative scholarship in health care through formal partnerships within the same university among the clinical, management, and social sciences.

International Health Economics Association was formed to increase communication among health economists, foster a higher standard of debate in the application of economics to health and health care systems, and assist young researchers at the start of their careers.

Research Center for Economy and Health, CRES (Spain) develops different analysis paths of the health care system, from the university research perspective. The claim is to help somehow to the changing process in the training and services management in subjects related to Health Economics and Health Services Administration.

The Centre for Economics and Policies in Health (UK) has been so named to reflect our objectives to develop a program of research and to provide policy support to the National Assembly for Wales from a standpoint of recognition of the wider economics of improving the health of the population.

Health Economics Research Centre (UK , University of Oxford) performs applied and methodological research in health economics. It was established in 1996 under the Directorship of Alastair Gray as a collaboration between the University of Oxford and the NHS Executive.

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