Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center For Health Policy

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    Initiative seeks to bolster ‘rediscovery research’

    The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR) is partnering with a public charity, Cures Within Reach, to encourage “rediscovery research,” the “repurposing” of already approved medical treatments to other conditions or diseases for which there are no “universally” effective therapies. Read More

    Sep 10, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    VU to map gaps in physician coverage across nation

    Vanderbilt researchers have been selected to receive a national grant as part of a push to gauge the coming impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read More

    Jul 19, 2012

  • phrenology model

    Dramatic expansion at Vanderbilt’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society

    Five new faculty members are joining the Center for Medicine, Health and Society as part of a dramatic expansion of the multidisciplinary center that links the social sciences and humanities to Vanderbilt's academic medical center. Read More

    May 29, 2012

  • Vanderbilt University

    HHS’ Hughes to discuss health policy March 7

    Dora Hughes Dora Hughes, a Vanderbilt School of Medicine alumna and counselor for science and public health to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, will discuss “Achieving Health Equity: An Update on Federal Policies, Programs and Progress” from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Read More

    Mar 5, 2012