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According to a survey of Americans conducted in December, only 63% of individuals surveyed said they would take the COVID-19 vaccine, down from 83% in March. Schaeffer Center hosted an expert webinar on strategies to increase vaccine adoption.

Local, independent pharmacies are being overlooked, and that’s a mistake.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, parents put off or cancel their kids’ health appointments.

The Roybal Center for Behavioral Interventions in Aging seeks proposals for pilot projects that involve randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

The mean award was 9 times higher than the median in-network price for the same services.

Out of the 1.3 million individuals between the ages of 50-79 who are diagnosed with cancer, only 15% of those cases will be caught early. Aspen Institute and USC Schaeffer Center partnered for an expert discussion on early detection technologies.

The Schaeffer Center, through the USC Center for Advancing Sociodemographic and Economic Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (CeASES-ADRD), is currently accepting applications to fund one-year research pilot projects. 

Two prominent health policy experts took differing positions during a webinar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, part of the Richard N. Merkin Distinguished Speaker Series.

The results reinforce the need to evaluate policies and practices around detecting impairment, according to the researchers.

In this post, the authors lay out key considerations for improving the MSSP over the long haul with the objective of helping get a repeatedly derailed conversation back on track.