Policy Center Flash!

5/21/12: Read the sixth installment of the State of Reform blog series "What if? Primary Care Practice and the ACA" written by Associate Professor Fredrick Chen, MD, MPH.

5/14/12: Read the fifth installment of the State of Reform blog series "What if? The States and Health Reform" written by Evans School Professor Pamela Clouser McCann.

Read previous installments

Welcome to the Health Policy Center Initiative!

We are a group of faculty and staff at the University of Washington investigating how our university can create a health policy center to serve our local and regional health system communities. This is a work in progress, and we're excited about what we're learning.

What We're Doing Right Now

We're conducting an evaluation of the policy center idea and simultaneously offering health policy support to community partners.

• Policy Center Assessment Phase
• Current Policy Work
• Potential Policy Work

Our Mission

We know that no matter what kind of health policy partnership we offer the community, our fundamental mission will be to help move health policy analysis and decision-making forward at the local, regional, and national level through objective, rigorous, and accessible policy-relevant research, dissemination, and facilitation.