The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is one of the nation’s premier centers for health policy and health services research. Institute faculty and research staff generate evidence providing the basis for sound health policy decisions at the local, state, national, and international levels. We also work with UCSF colleagues to translate research, building a pathway from research to policy and from bench to bedside to community.

Research Areas

Health care reform and health care system
Access to care, with special consideration of underserved populations and health disparities, quality of care, financing of care, costs and cost-effectiveness of care, technology assessment, organization of care, physician practice patterns, health care workforce issues, and other issues

Child and adolescent health
Health insurance, children with special needs, evaluation of school-based clinics and coordinated school health services, adolescent health policy, physician practice guidelines, and other issues

Reproductive health
Teen pregnancy, evaluation of pregnancy prevention programs, Latina reproductive health, infertility issues, and other issues

HIV/AIDS
Costs of care , cost-effectiveness of prevention and treatment, HIV and injection drug use

Prescription drug policies
Drug safety, effectiveness, efficacy, drug use among the elderly and chronically ill, pharmaceuticals for disenfranchised populations

Substance abuse
Tobacco and other drug use, evaluation of treatment interventions, tobacco and corporate influences on health policy, tobacco control policies, second-hand smoke

Chronic illness
Costs of illness, functional and psychosocial outcomes of illness, functional status measurement

Work and health
Relationship between work and health, work disability policies, and other issues

Research integrity
Evidence-based policy and research on bias in research

Biomedical communications
Editorial peer review, ethical standards in publishing, authorship guidelines, dissemination of research

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