Center for Healthcare Policy and Research | UC Davis Health

Faculty mentorship and community-engaged research helped UC Davis students develop and publish a study evaluating a proactive tobacco cessation outreach strategy at a free student-run clinic in Sacramento.

Aimee Moulin was named the inaugural Dickenson Chair in Emergency Medicine, advancing addiction treatment through research, education, clinical innovation and expanded patient support programs. Moulin is a principal investigator at the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research.

The UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research’s Healthy Living Clinic Initiative found that a system-based, quality improvement approach can significantly improve tobacco cessation services in primary care. The team created a Quick Start Guide to help clinics strengthen their efforts.

The UC Davis School of Medicine recognized students, residents, faculty and staff for outstanding contributions to the medical school as part of its annual awards. Jeffrey Hoch, associate director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, received the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Professor Courtney Lyles discusses ways to detect and prevent bias in AI models and how UC Davis Health is building fairer and more reliable AI systems to serve patients and physicians. Lyles is director of the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research and a leading researcher in digital health. 

Transportation challenges create major barriers for kidney failure patients who receive hemodialysis at a clinic. These disruptions also heavily impact clinic staff. New research from the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research calls for more coordination between health and transportation systems.