How can we improve health and health care in rural America?

How can we improve health and health care in rural America? Mark Holmes, PhD Professor of health policy and management Director, UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research George Pink, PhD Humana Distinguished Professor of health policy and management   Read the entire article here: How can we improve health and health care… Read more »

Access to Mental Health Care Has Increased Under the Affordable Care Act

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 15, 2017 – People with mental illness reported that they were more likely to be insured and thus better able to access health and mental health services following implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a new study published online today in Psychiatric Services in Advance. Effects were seen in states that had expanded… Read more »

Kathleen C. Thomas Receives 2017 Banks Award for Mentoring

Kathleen C. Thomas, PhD, MPH, was awarded the 2017 Steven M. Banks Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association in recognition of outstanding mentoring and sponsorship of diverse mental health services researchers. Dr. Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, and… Read more »

FutureDocs Issue Brief Released: Nation Has Enough Physicians to Meet the Nation’s Overall Needs – For Now. Distribution to Worsen

The Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy released the first in a series of issue briefs for the FutureDocs Forecasting Tool, built with support from the Physicians Foundation. The innovative tool helps policy makers, physicians and health systems plan for what type of practitioners will be needed to meet the growing utilization of healthcare in… Read more »

Dr. Laura Hanson on Improving Advanced Dementia Care in Nursing Homes

Sheps investigator Laura Hanson, MD, MPH is featured on the GeriPal podcast discussing her randomized control trial of a Goals of Care intervention for family decision makers of nursing home residents with advanced dementia. You can listen to the podcast here and watch the Goals of Care decision aid here.

New UNC project to create hub for connecting rural health providers with innovative techniques to combat opioid use disorders and overdose deaths

New UNC ECHO for Medication Assisted Treatment project to research barriers and enabling factors for primary care providers to offer medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorders and thereby impact opioid overdose death rates in North Carolina [CHAPEL HILL, NC] – A new research initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill will help to increase North Carolinian’s access… Read more »

A paper by Dr. Marisa Domino and Mental Health colleagues is in press at the premier journal, Health Services Research

Drs. Marisa Domino, Joe Morrissey, and Mona Kilany (T32 alum) have a paper in press at the premier journal, Health Services Research.  The paper, entitled “Through the Looking Glass: Estimating Effects of Medical Homes for People with Severe Mental Illness,” found positive associations between medical homes and access to primary care, specialty mental health care,… Read more »

Mental Health Postdoc Faculty Mentor, Byron Powell, receives Early Career Award

Byron Powell, PhD, Assistant Professor with Health Policy and Management and core faculty member for the Mental Health Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program here at Sheps, received the Early Career Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science Special Interest Group at their Annual Convention in New York this past… Read more »

Sheps Center names two new deputy directors

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research has named two new Deputy Directors, one for Research and one for Policy. Erin Fraher, PhD, MPP is the new Deputy Director for Policy.  Fraher is the Director of the Program on Health Workforce Research and Policy.  Although she is recognized internationally as an expert on… Read more »