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Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy. The Academy provides a professional home and technical assistance resource for researchers and policy professionals. Committed to the vision of improving health and health care by generating new knowledge and moving knowledge into action, the Academy seeks to stimulate the development, understanding, and use of the best available health services research and health policy information by public and private decision makers. The Caucus is a new organization, created as a think tank to allow for truly interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and to encourage collaboration between individuals from the diverse fields that inform health policy.

Coalition for Health Services Research
(Haiden Huskamp on Advocacy Comm)

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is dedicated to excellence in state health policy and practice. Through this website and the organization's many other activities, NASHP works to disseminate information designed to assist states in the development of practical, innovative solutions to complex health policy issues.

Health Care Financing Administration

Kaiser Family Foundation

Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research

Center for Health Care Policy and Evaluation

United States Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
Office of the Inspector General
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Library of Medicine

Division of Health and Science Policy at the New York Academy of Medicine

Duke University Center for Health Policy, Law, and Management

Health Policy and Planning, Oxford University Press

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Information for State Health Policy Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Maternal and Child Health Policy Research Center

Dr. Koop.com-"Health Policy and You"

Institute for Health Policy Solutions

Powerpoint Presentation-- Description= Powerpoint lecture that provides an
introduction to managed care. By Nancy Turnbull, Harvard School of Public
Health.

id21 Health: the new health research reporting service Provides a searchable database of concise, easy-to-read summaries of research relevant to health policy in developing countries. A wide range of subjects are covered, including health sector reform, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, disease and disability, and environmental health. id21 Health also offers this information in a free email newsletter, id21HealthNews, for those with limited internet access. id21 is supported by the UK Department for International Development, and hosted by the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. id21 Health also aims to stimulate debate on specific health policy topics through its free publication, Insights Health. The first issue, due out in March, will focus on non-communicable diseases. People wishing to subscribe to Insights Health should send us their name and full postal address by mail, fax or email.