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Our institute is driven to find real-world solutions to the many challenges facing our nation’s healthcare system.

IHPI’s 600+ faculty experts collaborate across the University of Michigan and beyond to improve the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of healthcare.

We conduct timely, relevant health services research, and we translate, share, and implement evidence and insights in ways that transform healthcare policy and practice. We do this work in partnership with healthcare providers, policymakers, patients, and communities.

Together, IHPI members are advancing our understanding of healthcare to help people live longer and healthier lives.

Read some of the significant stories, articles, publications, and reports,and our top policy and practice highlights from 2019 featuring IHPI and our members. 

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Opioid Prescribing Limits for Acute Pain

Brief - Opioid Prescribing Limits for Acute Pain

Opioid prescribing limits for acute pain have had modest effects in limiting overprescribing. Researchers outline why that may be and discuss potential policy considerations to maximize the ability of limits to reduce excessive prescribing.
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IHPI's 648 experts represent an ever-growing range of healthcare research and policy expertise

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Samuel Handelman
Samuel Handelman, Ph.D.
Effects of population genetic differences on health outcomes
Brady T. West
Brady T. West, Ph.D., M.A.
Applied statistics in community health, disparities, and substance use
Nicholas Douville
Nicholas Douville, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.
Perioperative care and personalized medicine
Barbara Israel
Barbara Israel, Dr.P.H., M.P.H.
Social determinants of health and community capacity building
Christopher Friese
Christopher Friese, Ph.D., R.N., AOCN, FAAN
Cancer care quality and nursing
Deborah Levine
Deborah Levine, M.D., M.P.H.
Chronic disease care, stroke care and outcomes, health disparities
Matt Davis
Matthew (Matt) Davis, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Data science and health policy, non-specific back pain
Maximiliano Mendieta
Maximiliano Mendieta, Ph.D.
Hospice and long-term care policy

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IHPI's Top Policy and Practice Insights for 2018

IHPI's Top Policy and Practice Insights

Read some of the significant stories, articles, publications, and reports from 2019 featuring IHPI and our members.
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We are Innovators...and Innovation Builds the Future

The University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is a place where intellectual energy and passion for improving public health converge. It’s a vibrant home for health services researchers from multiple disciplines to collaborate and tackle some of the toughest issues in health and health care.

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