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The Cornell Health Policy Center is a partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine and the Brooks School of Public Policy, which serves as the locus of health policy impact, research, and training at Cornell.
🚨📝 New Cornell Health Policy Center memo out now! This brief titled “Trends in U.S. Nursing Home Ownership and Impacts on Quality of Care” synthesizes four studies on nursing home ownership by CHPC faculty members Dr. Mark Unruh, Dr. Robert Tyler Braun, & colleagues.

Read here: buff.ly/clUa3eO
December 2, 2025 at 2:03 PM
📣 Join us TODAY for a Cornell Health Policy Center Speaker Series event: "Physician Decision-Making and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs," featuring Andrew H. Martin.

🗓️ Monday, December 1st | 11:40 AM-12:55 PM EST

🔗 Register for Zoom: buff.ly/MTnYiOJ
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🎤 Join us for an upcoming Cornell Health Policy Center Speaker Series event: "Physician Decision-Making and the Marketing of Prescription Drugs," featuring Andrew H. Martin, MBA.

🗓️ Monday, December 1st | 11:40 AM-12:55 PM EST

👉 Register for Zoom: buff.ly/t4OD65G
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
📌 Dr. Sarah Gutkind, Postdoctoral Associate in Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, and colleagues have a paper out in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine: "Racial and ethnic disparities in prehospital restraint use and sedation."

🔗 Read full publication: buff.ly/du5hJx8
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📌 Between-program variation explains 38.6–48.3% of variation in take home methadone delivery.

👉 That's a key takeaway from "Developing and validating measures of take-home methadone with administrative data," a new paper by CHPC faculty member Dr. Yuhua Bao.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/eH0Ecrl
November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🚨 NEW Cornell Health Policy Insight Panel results released!

In this survey, health policy experts were asked to weigh in on Medicare Advantage. For key takeaways and trends, check out the CHPC website: buff.ly/YCsRiN0
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣 It's not too late to join us THIS Thursday for a Weill Cornell Medicine Health Policy & Economics Speaker Series event: "Nudges vs. Navigation: Evidence From a Policy RCT to Promote Medicaid Retention," feat. Dr. Adrianna McIntyre.

🗓️ November 13th | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Join Zoom: buff.ly/E5bmarz
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📣 Join us for a speaker series event, "Nudges vs. Navigation: Evidence From a Policy RCT to Promote Medicaid Retention," hosted by the Division of Health Policy and Economics at Weill Cornell Medicine!

Thursday, November 13th | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Zoom Link: lnkd.in/eEHEG-hN
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📌 Dr. Robert "Tyler" Braun has a new paper out in Health Affairs: "Private Equity-Owned Hospices Report Highest Profits, Lowest Patient Care Spending Compared with Other Ownership Models."

Read the full publication here: buff.ly/YzRv1ln
October 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
⭐️💉 Congratulations to Dr. Sallie Permar for delivering the prestigious Stanley A. Plotkin Lecture in Vaccinology hosted by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society! Her talk, “Eliminating Lifelong Disabilities Through Vaccination,” highlighted the power of vaccines to protect children's futures.
October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event, "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry."

In this seminar, expert Conrad Bhamani will discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act reformed how drug prices are set in the Medicare program.

Register: buff.ly/iBfqwsT
October 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📣It's not too late to join us TOMORROW for our CHPC Speaker Series event: "Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens," featuring expert panelists Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld and Dr. Amanda Isabel Mauri.

Register for Zoom: buff.ly/4NtgbiU
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣 It’s not too late to join us TOMORROW for a special seminar, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

The panel will be moderated by Dhruv Khullar and feature nationally recognized experts: Michael Chernew, Sherry Glied, & Sachin H. Jain, MD, MBA.

📌 Register: buff.ly/pJl5Jfp
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Dr. Amanda I. Mauri, Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management at the University of Maryland, will be a speaker in our seminar, “Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens."

About Dr. Mauri: buff.ly/dAy7pLO

Register: buff.ly/28asM1M
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

About Dr. Jain: buff.ly/LtmPbhq
📌 Register: buff.ly/snmvxDK
️🗓️ Tuesday, October 21 from 4 PM–5 PM ET
October 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🎤 Join us for our upcoming CHPC Speaker Series event: "How the Inflation Reduction Act is Changing the US Pharmaceutical Industry." featuring Conrad Bhamani, Manager at the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science and Cornell alum.

Register Here: weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
📌 Dr. Sri Lekha Tummalapalli has a paper out in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, titled "Understanding Hospitalized Patients with ESKD Experiencing Homelessness in the United States."

📖 Read the full paper here: buff.ly/FwPXT9d
October 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dr. Zoe Lindenfeld, Assistant Professor of Health Administration at Rutgers University, will be a speaker in our upcoming seminar, “Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens"

About Dr. Lindenfeld: buff.ly/ceC9UUv
Register here: buff.ly/EAzxV2p
October 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨📝 New CHPC memo out now! This brief titled, “State Policy Levers to Improve Medicaid Pediatric Provider Payment” synthesizes a recent study by CHPC/Weill Cornell faculty members Drs. Beth McGinty, Kayla Tormohlen, Sallie Permar, Cori Green, & Ilina Das Ewen.

📖 Read here: buff.ly/fxNfaMG
October 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dr. Sherry Glied, Professor of Public Service at NYU's Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

About Dr. Glied: buff.ly/6mWlI06

Register: buff.ly/snmvxDK

🗓️ Tues., 10/21 4–5PM ET
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🎤 Join us for our upcoming CHPC Speaker Series event: "Revenue, Spending, and Substance Use: Examining the Overdose Crisis Through a Fiscal Lens."

🗓️ Wednesday, October 22 from 1:30 PM-3 PM ET

📍Join in-person at the Cornell Ithaca campus or via Zoom

Register for Zoom: buff.ly/PyAE5Is
October 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Dr. Michael Chernew, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, will be an expert panelist in our upcoming virtual panel, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future.”

About Dr. Chernew: buff.ly/O00WXbJ

📌 Register now: buff.ly/vHdnVRH

️🗓️ Tuesday, 10/21 | 4PM–5PM ET
September 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📌 CHPC affiliate faculty fellow Dr. Madeline Sterling has a paper out in JACC: Advances titled, "Envisioning Home Health as a Critical Component of Learning Health Systems to Improve Evidence-Based Care in Heart Failure."

👤 About Dr. Sterling: buff.ly/ti98dKw

📖 Full publication: buff.ly/wMoG3IX
September 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📣 Join us for a special seminar, “Medicare Advantage: The Good, The Bad, and The Future,” hosted by the Cornell Health Policy Center and The Physicians Foundation Center for the Study of Physician Practice and Leadership.

️🗓️ Tuesday, October 21 from 4 PM–5 PM ET

📌 Register now: buff.ly/EySAtci
September 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣 It’s not too late to join us THIS THURSDAY for our September CHPC Journalism Series webinar: “Supporting Data-Driven Journalism on Medicaid Policy!”

🗓️ Thursday, September 25th | 2:00-3:00 PM ET

Register: buff.ly/PqOT9rD
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM