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Public Health at Vanderbilt: Speakers discuss use of evidence in state health policymaking

Posted by on Friday, April 20, 2018 in News .

“State Health Policy: Does Evidence Really Make a Difference” was the title of the spring Research into Policy and Practice Lecture, April 11 in Light Hall. The semi-annual lecture is sponsored by the Department of Health Policy.

Speakers included Christopher Koller, president of the Millbank Memorial Fund and former health insurance commissioner for the state of Rhode Island, and Victor Yung-Tao Wu, MD, PhD, chief medical officer, Bureau of TennCare. The moderator was Blake Farmer, senior healthcare reporter with Nashville Public Radio.