Research
Core Research Pillars
Cornell Health Policy Center faculty produce innovative health policy research across three core pillars.
Pillar One: 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 healthcare spending?
Pillar Two: Health policy communication
How do we effectively communicate with diverse audiences–including policymakers, interest groups, the public and others–about evidence-based health policy?
Pillar Three: 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 healthcare and population health outcomes?
Health Policy Research Priorities
We leverage cross-campus expertise to conduct innovative research to address the most urgent issues in health policy. Research on these issues often spans our core research pillars. Our health policy research priorities are:
- Child and family policy
- Aging policy
- Mental health and addiction policy
- Health systems policy
- Medicaid and safety net policy