Recent Work
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NIA-Funded Center Addresses Social, Economic Impacts of Alzheimer’s
The new center will explore innovative ways to ease the disease’s toll on individuals, families and caregivers while also developing strategies to reduce its burden on healthcare systems with an international team of researchers.
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Pitfalls and Potholes: Data Issues to Consider When Conducting Analyses of State Opioid Policies
Register for the RAND-USC Schaeffer Opioid Policy Tools and Information Center training webinar here.
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Innovation in Alzheimer’s Disease: Policies to Support Access to Treatments, Diagnostics, and Prevention
Join the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy for a webinar that looks at hopeful signs in clinical development and the policy challenges on how to make available Alzheimer’s disease treatments and diagnostics to all those who should have them.
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Academic Freedom
USC Schaeffer Center Statement on Academic Freedom The mission of the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics is to measurably improve value in health through evidence-based policy solutions, research excellence, and private- and public-sector engagement. Core to the Schaeffer Center’s mission is research grounded in rigor and evidence. Since its inception, the USC […]
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COVID-19 is Exacerbating Challenges for Individuals with Addiction
The COVID-19 pandemic is adversely affecting efforts to control substance abuse according to Assistant Secretary of Health Admiral Brett P. Giroir, MD, who spoke with Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Adam Leventhal.