About the Center
Cornell Health Policy Center (CHPC) is a partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine and the Brooks School of Public Policy that serves as the locus of health policy impact, research, and training at Cornell.The Center brings together the strong cadre of health policy researchers across Cornell to pursue the mission of using evidence to shape effective health policy at the federal, state, local, and organization levels.
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Health Policy Pillars
Health care system financing and organization
How can policy shape clinician payment, health care system structure, and provider organization to optimize patient and population health and control health care spending?
Health policy communication
How do we effectively communicate with diverse audiences– including policymakers, interest groups, the public and others– about evidence-based health policy?
Policy to address social drivers of health
How do policies related to social risk and protective factors for health (e.g. education, income, transportation) influence health care and population health outcomes?
Founding Center Directors
Colleen Barry
Founding Center Director
Dean, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy
Dr. Colleen Barry’s research focuses on how health and social policies can affect a range of outcomes for individuals with mental illness and substance use and communities at risk for violence. She also studies how communication strategies can increase public support for evidence-based policies to improve the health and wellbeing of people with mental illness and substance use disorders and reduce stigma.
Beth McGinty
Founding Center Director
Livingston Farrand Professor and Chief, Division of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Beth McGinty’s research is focused on how health policies affect populations with complex health and social needs, including people experiencing mental illness, substance use disorder, chronic pain, and others. Her work is characterized by integrating approaches from the fields of public policy, health economics, and implementation science to understand how policies affect population health.
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