Center for Health Policy

The Center for Health Policy (CHP) is an instigator and facilitator of research related to a broad range of public health issues and the policies that address them. Its mission is to stimulate and facilitate research in health policy, disseminate findings from this research to policy makers, and provide educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students seeking careers in health policy.

The Center has more than 20 research projects currently underway overseas and in North Carolina that address important health disparity issues among resource-poor communities.

CHP-affiliated faculty collaborate with research colleagues from the Duke Schools of Business, Law, Environment, Engineering, Divinity, Medicine, Nursing, and from Arts and Sciences. CHP-affiliated faculty also teach many of Duke’s health policy courses.

A core project of the Center for Health Policy is the Health Inequalities Program (HIP), which tests and translates interventions to reduce health disparities through training, information technology, evaluation, and international development. A major emphasis of HIP is to address health inequalities in populations which are disadvantaged in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, income, geography and other social factors.

The Center for Health Policy’s current research areas include:

• Communicable Infections
• Substance Abuse
• Medicaid / Medicare
• Aging / Chronic Disease
• Training
• Information Technology
• International