Welcome to the Schaeffer Center
The mission of the Schaeffer Center at USC is to promote health and value in health care delivery through innovative research and policy in the United States and internationally.
The Schaeffer Center is distinguished by a research staff, strategically recruited for its research and policy expertise. The faculty will work with an advisory board of health care professionals to ensure a policy-relevant research agenda that is timely and thought-provoking. Currently, the Schaeffer Center is conducting research and policy analysis to support evidence-based health care reform. Studies underway focus on five salient health policy issues:
- Reducing unnecessary spending.
- Improving insurance design.
- Understanding how public policy affects medical innovation.
- Identifying the macroeconomic consequences of U.S. health care costs.
- Improving comparative effectiveness and outcomes research.
The Schaeffer Center uses a novel, interdisciplinary approach to advance economic, health services and policy research, and to train a new generation of global health policy leaders. Specific activities to generate new knowledge, communicate research results, develop new health leadership and inform public discourse include:
- Independent economic and policy research on critical health care issues;
- A visiting scholars' program to develop academic and policy networks;
- Training postdoctoral and doctoral scholars;
- Policy conferences on timely health policy issues; and
- Promoting health policy and economics throughout USC.
Please look for our announcement in early 2010 describing our first policy conference on the macroeconomic consequences of health care reform to be jointly held with the UCLA Forecasting Group at the Anderson School of Management.