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

*Video is not available for the seminar.

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 (download slides)
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 (download slides)
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

*Video is not available for the seminar.

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. (download slides)
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 (download slides)
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 (download slides)
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 (download slides)
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

*Video is not available for the seminar.

The Fourth Wave of the Opioid Overdose Crisis: Lessons for Researchers from the Veterans Health Administration
December 7, 2022
Elizabeth Oliva 

How Do We Evaluate Impacts of Primary Care Reform? Insights from a Multiple Methods Study in Two Canadian Provinces
November 30, 2022
Sara Allin

Emerging Research on California’s “Red Flag” Law
November 16, 2022
Veronica Pear

How Black Mamas and Birthing People Are Working to Challenge and Change Health Care Systems
November 9, 2022
Kathryn Hall-Trujillo

Primary Care Time Scarcity, the Changing Practice of Medicine and Physician Burnout: A Qualitative Study
November 2, 2022
Michelle-Linh Nguyen

The State of Reproductive Rights: What’s Changed, What’s Next, and What We Can Do Now (download slides)
October 26, 2022
Monica McLemore 

Application of Implementation Frameworks to Conduct Mixed-Methods Evaluations
October 19, 2022
Jennifer Rosenthal

Frontline Physician Strategies to Address Vaccine Hesitancy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
October 12, 2022
Joy Melnikow and Sabrina Loureiro

Life-Cycle Assessment: Real-World Evidence for Precision Oncology
October 5, 2022
Dean A. Regier

Race and Medical Decision Tools: What, Why and Really?
September 21, 2022
David Tom Cooke 

The Impact of Restrictions on Federally-Funded Reproductive Health Care
June 15, 2022
Katherine Glaser

Engaging Older Adults and Caregivers in Advance Care Planning
June 8, 2022
Rebecca Howe

Leveraging Implementation Science to Drive Quality Improvement: Expanding Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship to Community Settings
June 1, 2022
Larissa May

Unfinished Business: The Achievable Goal of Eliminating All Tobacco Product Use in the United States by 2030*
May 18, 2022
Michael Fiore

Effects of Cannabis Legalization on the Perinatal Use Rates of Cannabis, Tobacco and Alcohol
May 11, 2022
Danica "Loralyn" Taylor

Alcohol Screening Among U.S. Primary Care Physicians
May 4, 2022
Brittany Chatterton

Social Media, Research Communication and Professional Networking
April 27, 2022
Denneal Jamison-McClung

Data Driving Action at DHCS
April 20, 2022
Linette Scott

What Can We Learn from the ICERs in ICER's Report: The Case of a New Drug for Alzheimer’s Disease
April 13, 2022
Jeffrey Hoch

Nepal: COVID-19 Pandemic and Responses
April 6, 2022
Sujan Marahatta

Achieving Weight Loss Through a Community-Based, Telewellness Program: A Randomized Controlled Trial
March 30, 2022
Desiree Backman and Neal Kohatsu

Collateral Benefits: Insights From a Pragmatic, Mixed-Method Impact and Process Evaluation of a School-Readiness Intervention*
March 16, 2022
Mackenzie Whipps

Impact of Life Course Risk Factors on Cognitive Aging and Impairment
March 9, 2022
Kristen M. George

Cost-Effectiveness and Value-Based Pricing of Aducanumab for Patients with Early Alzheimer’s Disease
March 2, 2022
Melanie Whittington

In Conversation with Dan Tancredi
February 23, 2022
Dan Tancredi

Community-Based Violence Intervention: What It Is and Why It Is Essential for Violence Reduction
February 16, 2022
Shani Buggs

Co-Producing Randomized Clinical Trials with Patients: A Hypothetical Case Study in Scleroderma
February 9, 2022
Mark Harrison

Technology Adoption and Market Allocation: The Case of Robotic Surgery
February 2, 2022
Danea Horn

Racial and Ethic Classification in Research and Medicine: History, Racism, and Implications for Clinical Care
January 19, 2022
Alice Popejoy

Return on Investment for a Diabetes Prevention Program: The Merced California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative
January 12, 2022
Paul Brown

*Video is not available for the seminar.

Launching the Nation's Largest All-Payer Claims Database
December 8, 2021
Michael Valle
Jill M. Yegian

What I Like About Doing Health Economic Research
December 1, 2021
Jeffrey Hoch

Addiction is an Emergency: A New Model of Care for Substance Use
November 17, 2021
Aimee Moulin

The Changing Landscape of Cannabis Policies in the United States and Experiences Among Black and Latinx Youth and Young Adults: A Mixed Methods Analysis
November 10, 2021
Morgan Philbin

Trouble with the Relatives: An HR Issue
November 3, 2021
Rinku Sutradhar

Data analytics and epidemic modeling informing COVID mitigation at UC San Diego: How we Return to Learn
October 27, 2021
Natasha Martin

COVID-19 and its Impact on Cancer Patients, Survivors and Systems: Unintended Consequences and Early Lessons
October 20, 2021
Stuart Peacock

Truckee Meadows COVID Risk Meter: A Collaborative Approach to Messaging Community Risk from COVID-19
October 13, 2021
Jeremy Smith

Difference-in-Difference Research Designs: Identification and Applications
October 6, 2021
Marcelo Perraillon

Research Prioritization and Design using Value of Information: A Gentle Introduction
September 29, 2021
Anna Heath

How Researchers Can Access Claims Data for their Research using the Colorado All Payer Claims Database
June 16, 2021
David J. Dale

The Hospital Discharge Summary: Primary Care Physicians’ Perspectives
June 2, 2021
Brittany Chatterton

Taking Charge with Numeric Ability and Confidence
May 19, 2021
Ellen Peters

Advancing Treatment Outcomes for Pregnant Women with Opioid Use Disorder
May 5, 2021
Ashley Leech

Developing a Framework for the Generation and Use of Real-World Evidence to Inform Cancer Drug Funding Decisions in Canada*
April 28, 2021
Kelvin Kar-Wing Chan

The Impact of COVID-19 on Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis*
April 21, 2021
Diana Miglioretti

The Transformation of Diabetes Care During COVID-19
April 14, 2021
Stephanie Crossen

A Risk Prediction Model for Long-Term Prescription Opioid Use
April 7, 2021
Iraklis Erik Tseregounis

Economic Issues in Rehabilitation: The Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Treating Post-Stroke Aphasia
March 31, 2021
Charles Ellis Jr.

Facilitating Patient and Health Care Team Engagement and Shared Decision Making in 3 Healthcare Delivery Systems*
March 17, 2021
Ming Tai-seale

Reducing Health Disparities: The Importance of Place Based Solutions
March 10, 2021
Darrell Gaskin

How California Counties Responded to COVID-19 under the Whole Person Care Medicaid Pilot Program
March 3, 2021
Nadereh Pourat

U.S. Physician Experiences: Barriers and Facilitators to Providing Patient Care during COVID-19*
February 24, 2021
Joy Melnikow and Melissa Gosdin

Introduction to Qualitative Methods and their Application in Healthcare Research*
February 17, 2021
Melissa Gosdin

Health Resources and Services Administration (HSRA) Webinar*
February 10, 2021
Adrienne Hoyt-Austin

Advancing Implementation Science: An NCI Perspective*
February 3, 2021
David A. Chambers

Researching the Effects of Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intentions: What we know and what we don't know (yet)*
January 20, 2021
Jingwen Zhang

Impacts of COVID-19 on the Neurodevelopmental Community and a Plan for Continued Care*
January 13, 2021
Leonard Abbeduto and Lauren Bullard

Health Technology Assessment in the Real World*
January 6, 2021
Judy Zerzan

*Video is not available for the seminar.