Seminar Series Archive | Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

Digital tools to address disparities and advance care and research
Lindsay Mayberry, Ph.D., M.S. | Associate Professor, Medicine and Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
December 3, 2025

Transforming population health management research into sustained care delivery transformation
Reshma Gupta, M.D., M.S.H.P.M. | Chief, Population Health and Accountable Care, UC Davis Health; Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Health
November 19, 2025

Revitalizing primary care to achieve a healthier nation: Recommendations from a national expert summit
Anthony Jerant, M.D. | Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UC Davis Health
November 12, 2025

Impacts of Medicaid routine vision benefits on eye care use, out of pocket spending, and diagnoses among dual eligibles
Brandy Lipton, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, UC Irvine
November 5, 2025

Embedding satellites, smartphones, and street views into environmental epidemiology 
Peter James, Sc.D., M.H.S. | Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis Health; and Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, UC Davis
October 22, 2025

An applied example of methods to study the impact of a state's school-based influenza vaccination program
Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Ph.D. | Chief Evaluation Officer, Office of Evaluation, Performance, and Analytics, County of San Diego
October 15, 2025

Turning evidence into action: Expanding fruit and veggie benefits for improved food security
Lauren Au, Ph.D., R.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, UC Davis
October 8, 2025 

Predicting pediatric pneumonia severity in the emergency room: Statistical considerations
Daniel Tancredi, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis Health
October 1, 2025

Who gets continuous glucose monitoring and what it really measures
Jorge Rodriguez, M.D. | Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
June 4, 2025

Using a community-based approach to test a novel racial equity training: Initial insights from perinatal care providers
Brittany Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, UC Davis
May 21, 2025

Efforts to evaluate and expand treatment for tobacco use among people with substance use disorder in Northern California
Iraklis Erik Tseregounis, Ph.D. | Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Health
May 14, 2024

Climate change and human health: Impacts and solutions for vulnerable communities
Kathryn Conlon, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis Health
May 7, 2025

Impacts of pandemic-era food assistance policies on health and health equity
Rita Hamad, M.D., Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
April 30, 2025

Requiem for odds ratios
Edward Norton, Ph.D. | UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management, Department of Health Management and Policy and Department of Economics, University of Michigan
April 23, 2025

Does haste make waste? Prevalence and types of errors reported after publication of studies of COVID-19 therapeutics
Brittany Chatterton, M.D., M.A.S. | Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Health
April 16, 2025

Solving addiction through science: Evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorder
Aimee Moulin, M.D. | Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine and Chief, Division of Addiction Medicine, UC Davis Health
April 9, 2025

Medicine on a large scale
Richard Pan, M.D., M.P.H. | Former California Legislator and Chair, Assembly and Senate Committees on Health; Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis
March 12, 2025

Developing a social needs screening and referral pilot program in oncology
Matthew (Mateo) Banegas, Ph.D.| Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, UC San Diego
March 5, 2025

The impact of healthcare algorithms and guidelines on racial and ethnic disparities and mitigation strategies
Shazia Siddique, M.D., M.S.H.P. | Assistant Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
February 26, 2025 

Interventions to support family dementia caregivers in Vietnam: Progress and future directions
Ladson Hinton, M.D. | Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Services, UC Davis
February 19, 2025

Summarizing evidence at the speed of policy: A recent example
Jeffrey Tice, M.D. | Professor, UC San Francisco
February 12, 2025 

Explaining the slowdown in health care spending growth
Melinda Buntin, Ph.D. | Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Bloomberg School of Public Health and Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University
February 5, 2025

Racial and ethnic representativeness of California medical schools
Richard Kravitz, M.D., M.S.P.H. | Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, UC Davis
January 22, 2025

Lessons from the statewide evaluation of California mental health crisis care programs
Mark Savill, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis Health
January 15, 2025

Diagnosing alcohol use disorder in primary care across intersecting identities: The role of AUDIT-C and alcohol symptom checklist screening tools
Robert L. Ellis, Ph.D., M.H.A. | Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
January 8, 2025

Developing first-generation college graduates in medicine with GRACE: Generosity, respect, authenticity, championing and emboldening expectations!
Alejandra Casillas, M.D., M.S.H.S. | Assistant Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
December 4, 2024

Designing a low-resource intervention to improve transitions from pediatric to adult endocrinology care for adolescents with type 1 diabetes
Sarah Haynes, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UC Davis Health
November 20, 2024

The wellbeing of child immigrants and children of immigrants in Mexico and the U.S.
Erin Hamilton, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Davis
November 13, 2024 

Leveraging high-value interventions to improve care in historically underserved populations
David Liss, Ph.D. | Research Associate Professor, General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
November 6, 2024

The California Collaborative for Public Health Research (CPR3)
Priya Shete, M.D., M.P.H. | Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UC San Francisco
October 30, 2024

A tale of two flavored tobacco sales restrictions: California and Massachusetts
Melanie S. Dove, M.P.H., Sc.D. | Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis Health
October 23, 2024

Assessing multi-level factors and practices related to receipt of treatment for unhealthy alcohol use
Lina Tieu, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
October 16, 2024 

Who's in and who's out? Selection bias and potential solutions: Applied examples from aging research
Elizabeth Rose Mayeda, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
October 2, 2024

How cost-effectiveness analysis can (and cannot) affect policy
September 25, 2024
Jeffrey S. Hoch, Ph.D. | Professor and Chief, Division of Health Policy and Management, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research

Looking upstream to address Yolo County’s significant health needs: Reducing health disparities through the Social Determinants of Health
June 5, 2024
Rebecca Tryon, M.S. | HHSA Program Manager, Healthy Communities Initiative, Yolo County Health and Human Services Agency

Advancing health equity in health services research: Have we moved the needle?
May 29, 2024
J'Mag Karbeah, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

In conversation with Jonathan Metzl: Public health and gun reform
May 15, 2024
Jonathan Metzl, M.D., Ph.D. | Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
Guest moderator: Shani Buggs, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Violence Prevention Research Program, UC Davis Health

Using genomic heterogeneity to inform therapeutic decisions for metastatic colorectal cancer: Economic evaluation using Value of Heterogeneity
May 8, 2024
Reka Pataky, Ph.D. | Senior Health Economist, BC Cancer

Real-world economic evaluation of genome-wide sequencing for developmental and seizure disorders: Evidence from Canada
May 1, 2024
Deirdre Weymann, M.A. | Senior Health Economist, BC Cancer

Patient preference information to inform reimbursement and uptake of precision oncology: Current efforts and future directions
April 24, 2024
Samantha Pollard, Ph.D. | Research and Implementation Scientist, Fraser Health

The Good Life program on healthy aging: The new California standard of care
April 17, 2024
David Johnson, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Neurology, UC Davis Health

Why individuals choose cannabis to medicate their cancer-related symptoms: A mixed methods study
April 10, 2024
Helen McTaggart-Cowan, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Communicating about vaccines: Impacts of uncertainty, misinformation, and relationships in health communication and decision-making
April 3, 2024
Nicole Kelp, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology, Colorado State University

Youth (dis)engagement and rurality: Trends, challenges and opportunities in Africa
March 13, 2024
Wilson Majee, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. | Associate Professor, College of Health Sciences, Health and Rehabilitation Science, University of Missouri

Democratic erosion and working-age mortality
March 6, 2024
Jennifer Karas Montez, Ph.D. | Professor, Sociology Department, Syracuse University

A computer-based health equity simulation for health care practitioners and students
February 28, 2024
Jessica Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Professor, Department of Health Services Administration, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Addressing health disparities through community-based collaborative research methods and practices
February 21, 2024
Shena Gazaway, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, University of Alabama School of Nursing

Mobilizing student agency in academia through a social justice peer mentorship program
February 14, 2024
Catrina Jaime, Ph.D. | Associate Clinical Professor, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

A peer-facilitated, navigation intervention to improve mental healthcare experiences and outcomes for minoritized veterans
February 7, 2024
Johanne Eliacin, Ph.D. | Associated Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center; Assistant Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine

Racialized disparities in neonatal drug toxicology screening
January 31, 2024
Cydney McGuire, Ph.D., M.P.H. | Assistant Professor, Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Assessing the value of vaccination against COVID-19 in children and adults
January 17, 2024
Lisa Prosser, Ph.D. | Marilyn Fisher Blanch Research Professor, School of Public Health, University of Michigan; and Associate Vice President, Research - Health Sciences, University of Michigan Office of Research

It takes a village: Exploring the impact of community and healthcare partnerships in diabetes management among minority populations
January 10, 2024
Idethia Shevon Harvey, Dr.PH. | Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences, University of Missouri

Financial and non-financial factors in health insurance decision making: A discrete choice experiment
December 6, 2023
Natalie Smith

Empowering choices: Creating a decision aid for families confronting severe congenital heart disease
November 29, 2023
Rebecca Delaney

Measurement and valuation of patient-centered outcomes: Applications in genomic medicine
November 15, 2023
Hadley Stevens Smith

Adapting a tobacco cessation training curriculum to promote intervention delivery among community health workers
November 8, 2023
Marcia Tan

Trust, misinformation, and the American relationship with science
November 1, 2023
Jon Agley

Caregiver communication and advance care planning: Highlights from a nationwide survey and local mixed methods study
October 25, 2023
Rebecca Howe

A gentle introduction to Distributional Cost-Effectiveness: The case of equity-enhancing gene therapy in sickle cell disease in the U.S.
October 18, 2023
Cece Calhoun and George Goshua

Cost-effectiveness of adult hearing screening in the U.S.
October 11, 2023
Ethan Borre

Cervical cancer stage at diagnosis and survival among women ≥65 years in California
October 4, 2023
Julianne Cooley

Do non-English speaking patients receive less timely ICU care? Examining the association between patients' primary language and length of stay in intensive care using the MIMIC data set
June 7, 2023
David Chin

A double dose of inequality: Rural hospital closures and access to care for communities of color
May 31, 2023
Tarun Ramesh

Conceptualizing time as a SDoH in cancer (outcomes) research: 2 case studies at the intersection of rurality x access to care
May 17, 2023
Arrianna Marie Planey

Multiclass classification for disease with ordinal categories: Application to dementia
May 10, 2023
Hong Li

Responding to the overdose epidemic in Rhode Island: Prediction, prevention and policy
May 3, 2023
Bennett Allen 

Algorithmic allocation of humanitarian aid with machine learning and digital data
April 26, 2023
Emily Aiken

Community-based youth development programming: Assessing factors that shape program engagement
April 19, 2023
Matt Rodriguez

Comparing health systems across North America: Learning from reforms to expand coverage, improve quality and recover from COVID-19
April 12, 2023
Sara Allin, Miguel González-Block and Thomas Rice

Food policy: Warning labels for food and beverages high in added sugar
April 5, 2023
Jennifer Falbe

Putting the "care" back in healthcare: Implementation science approaches to improve health equity
March 22, 2023
Sarah Javier 

Delivering genomics digitally: Evidence, policy and equity
March 15, 2023
Yvonne Bombard

Honoring privacy: Identifying and responding to healthcare providers’ mental health needs
March 8, 2023
Caryn Rubanovich

Barriers and facilitators to expansion of at home use of injectable contraceptives 
March 1, 2023
Jennifer Karlin

Informing guidelines and impacting practice: Quantitative decision science in clinical hematology-oncology
February 22, 2023
George Goshua 

Uses of machine learning risk prediction to inform and evaluate policies and practices
February 15, 2023
Hannah Laqueur

Economic evaluation of an audit and feedback intervention
February 8, 2023
Lynne Moore, Jason Robert Guertin and Blanchard Conombo

Exploring systems thinking in Health Technology Assessment: My observations as an HTA employee and researcher
February 1, 2023
Marina Richardson  

American healthcare: why it costs so much yet remains a beacon of growth and development
January 18, 2023
Peter Hilsenrath