IHPI's goals and priorities and its future as an institute are founded upon the substantial accomplishments in health services research and health policy that have distinguished the University of Michigan's history over the last two centuries. Discover more in this timeline of significant milestones compiled from across the university and IHPI's local partners.
1850–1956
Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan established various health sciences schools and colleges during its first century, including the Medical School, School of Dentistry, College of Pharmacy, and the roots of the School of Public Health and School of Nursing. In 1869, U-M became the first U.S. university to own and operate its own hospital, and was one of the first major medical schools to teach science-based medicine. Near the end of the 19th Century, research started to become central to the university’s mission, and U-M continues that tradition of excellence to this day.
Image: Surgery and anatomy class, U-M Medical School, circa 1893. Photo credit: U-M Medical School records collection, Bentley Historical Library.
The University of Michigan is founded in Detroit in 1817. In 1837, the Board of Regents held its first meeting in Ann Arbor and formally accepted the proposal by the town to locate the university there. The first college-level classes were held at U-M in Ann Arbor in 1841.
The Ann Arbor University of Michigan campus of the 1850s, captured on canvas by Jasper Cropsey, a painter of the Hudson River School. The landscape was commissioned by the Board of Regents. Image credit: Jasper Cropsey Visual Materials Collection, Bentley Historical Library
The University of Michigan Medical School opened its doors in 1850 and became U-M’s first professional school.
U-M establishes the Department of Physical Culture and Hygiene (predecessor of the School of Kinesiology).
The class of 1885 in the operating dental clinic. From the collections of the Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan (SMD652.114b).
The U-M School of Dentistry is founded as the College of Dental Surgery, making U-M the first state university in the world and the second university in the U.S. to offer education in dentistry. The college was renamed the School of Dentistry in 1927.
The U-M School of Pharmacy was established as the School of Pharmacy, becoming the first pharmacy school in a public university. It became a college in 1915.
First Pharmacognosy Laboratory at U-M, circa 1880s. Photo credit: Bentley Historical Library.
U-M adopts a policy, soon adopted by many other medical schools, to subscribe to every major medical journal in the world.
The teaching of sanitary science (part of the origins of the modern public health field) begins at U-M.
Elba L. Morse (back row, left), maternity nursing instructor, with U of M Training School nursing students, 1915. Morse devoted more than 50 years to the care of women and children and was inducted (posthumously) into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in October 1990 - the first nurse to receive this honor. Back row, L-R, Elba Morse, Madge Kniffen, Dr. Loomis, Pearl Dowe, Belle Ellis; front row, L-R, Hazel McFayden and Olive Sutherland. Photo credit: Nursing History Society of the University of Michigan.
The U-M Training School for Nurses is established in response to a growing need for professional nurses, organized and operated under the auspices of the Medical School. It was reorganized as the U-M Hospital Training School in 1912.
The university awarded this degree to Edna D. Day, who went on to lead the University of Missouri’s Department of Home Economics.
The curricula for master’s and doctoral degrees in public health are approved by the Board of Regents.
Program leading to the BS in Public Health Nursing is established.
The Board of Regents highlights the interdisciplinary nature of public health by moving programs from the Medical School to a new Graduate School Division of Hygiene.
Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial Institute for Medical Research is established at U-M.
Fred J. Hodges joins the Medical School as head of roentgenology (radiology). Hodges will pioneer the idea of routine chest x-rays as part of hospital admission, a practice that becomes nearly standard everywhere and is credited with helping detect tuberculosis, heart trouble, and lung cancer.
“The Social and Economic Aspects of Public Health and Medicine,” believed to be first course on medical care organization and financing offered at a U.S. university, is taught at U-M.
The Hollerith punch card system is implemented at University Hospital, recording patient statistical information about diagnosis, treatment, and condition at discharge to facilitate research on various diseases, particularly cancer.
In 1952 the Atomic Energy Commission will be interested in these data in order to compare results from treatment by standard high voltage x-rays with treatment by radioisotopes (cobalt-60), leading to the establishment of the Alice Crocker Lloyd Radiation Therapy Center at the University of Michigan.
U-M offers its first master of social work degree (MSW) through the Institute of Public and Social Administration (later to become the Institute of Social Work in 1946).
Photo credit: U-M School of Public Health
U-M’s Nathan Sinai, a professor of Hygiene and Public Health, develops a voluntary health insurance plan with the Michigan State Medical Society that later becomes a prototype for Blue Shield.
U-M’s nursing program is officially recognized as an independent university teaching unit and the name of the school changes to the University of Michigan School of Nursing.
The Human Heredity Clinic is established to collect data and provide genetic counseling regarding hereditary disease, one of the first human genetics programs in the country connected to a university hospital.
The U-M School of Public Health (SPH) is established by the Board of Regents after 50 years of the teaching of disease prevention and health promotion at the university.
Public Health Economics and Medical Care Abstracts [which eventually became Medical Care Review (1967) and subsequently Medical Care Research and Review (1995)] is published by the U-M Bureau of Public Health Economics in the School of Public Health [see next].
The National Sanitation Foundation (now NSF International) is founded at SPH as an independent, not-for-profit organization to set standards for the food-service industry.
The Board of Regents approves the Bureau of Public Health Economics within the School of Public Health. Its Medical Care Reference Collection becomes the nation’s primary source of archival information on community aspects of medical care.
An ISR survey researcher conducting an interview, 1949. Photo credit: University of Michigan News and Information Services Collection, Bentley Historical Library
The Institute for Social Research (ISR), among the world’s largest and oldest academic survey research organizations, and a leader in the development and application of social science methods and education, is established at U-M. ISR’s portfolio of work includes a breadth of research examining the relationships between human health, behavior, and social factors. Rensis Likert, an organizational psychologist and developer of the Likert Scale, served as ISR’s first director (pictured at left with Angus Campbell, ISR’s co-founder and second director).
ISR co-founder Rensis Likert, an organizational psychologist and developer of the Likert Scale, becomes ISR’s first director (pictured at left with Angus Campbell, ISR’s co-founder and second director).
Photo credit: Bentley Historical Library
The U-M School of Social Work, preceded by the U-M Institute of Social Work, is established.
The Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital is dedicated.
SPH Professor Thomas Francis Jr. concludes the two-year national field trials of the Salk polio vaccine, and on April 12 announces to the world that the vaccine developed by his former student Jonas Salk is “safe, effective, and potent.”
Children participating in the field trials of the Salk vaccine were dubbed "polio pioneers." Photo credit: Bentley Historical Library/U-M Alumni Association Records
Norman Hayner, John Napier, Benjamin Johnson, Millicent Higgins, and Fred Epstein outside the Tecumseh Community Health Study office. Photo credit: Cardiovascular Disease History Archive, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
The Tecumseh Community Health Study begins through the efforts of SPH and other U-M faculty, focusing on behavioral, environmental, and family factors associated with cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions. The study focused on the entire community of Tecumseh, Michigan, rather than a representative sample. The investigators were able to quantify the role of a number of factors involved in the development of coronary heart disease.
Walter McNerney, a professor of Hospital Administration in the School of Business, directs an unprecedented study of costs, reimbursement, utilization, and hospital economics in the state of Michigan, commissioned by the governor. McNerney went on to help design the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and oversaw the merger of Blue Cross and Blue Shield in the late 1970s.
The 1,492 page report showed what data could do for health management–such as develop treatment norms for different diagnoses, the logic that came to underpin most health care payments in the United States. One result was that Blue Cross became independent of the American Hospital Association in 1961 and McNerney became president of the Blue Cross Association that year. Others in the Department of Medical Care Organization took it up and continued with the Medical Care Chart Book, published 1962-1991. Gradually, federal and state governments had begun to publish the kind of systematic data it contained.
1960–1985
The 1960s saw the beginnings of significant changes in the American healthcare system. The period was marked by the rapid expansion of social programs, including the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, and the concomitant blossoming of social sciences and federal support for this research. HSR came into greater prominence as a field over the next 50 years, helped by various shifts in healthcare financing that incentivized interdisciplinary research on how healthcare was organized, delivered, and paid for.
Image: Polio clinic sponsored by the Urban League of Greater Muskegon. Photo credit: Bentley Historical Library / Urban League of Greater Michigan Records.
SPH Professor S.J. “Sy” Axelrod expands the SPH program in Medical Care Organization, which soon takes on a central role in educating administrators for the Social Security Administration, established by Congress in 1965.
The Multi-Organ Transplant Program, the first transplant center in Michigan, is established at U-M.
The Center for Research on the Utilization of Scientific Knowledge (CRUSK) is established at ISR; undertakes a variety of HSR and other research until 1985, when its work was largely absorbed into ISR’s three other research centers.
Photo of Ron Lippitt, Floyd Mann and colleagues. From ISR history http://home.isr.umich.edu/about/history/timeline/
Bentley Historical Library
Avedis Donabedian’s landmark article “Evaluating the Quality of Medical Care” is published in the Milbank Quarterly, establishing the widely used structure-process-outcome framework. The papers were commissioned by NIH’s Health Services Research Study Section from carefully selected authors as a means of defining the scope, methods, and standards of the field.
ISR launches the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a national study of socioeconomic factors and health that has led to key inter-generational analyses and a more nuanced understanding of the dynamics of poverty.
The Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education opens.
Hospital Economics, as well as “The Economic Effects of National Health Insurance,” are published by Sylvester Berki.
Our understanding of the economics and law of the broader healthcare system were shaped by scholars working in the School of Public Health’s Health Management and Policy Department. Sylvester Berki authored the first major works on the topics of antitrust law and hospital economics. Berki and HMP colleagues went on to pioneer the study of crucial questions, such as when and why people choose health insurance plans, and how to calculate the appropriate amount of healthcare resources for a given patient (thereby contributing to the basis of the prospective payment system for healthcare).
Quantitative Techniques for Hospital Planning and Control is published by J.R. Griffith, a professor of Health Management and Policy and Medical Administration.
The book sold about 10K copies in its first edition (an academic bestseller), and led to a series of authorized additional editions. More to the point, it was a monument in the development of more precise, informed, quantitative provider management. Griffith followed in 1987 with The Well-Managed Community Hospital, now in its 7th edition, and titled The Well-Managed Healthcare Organizatio. It is a recommended reference for American College of Healthcare Executives’ Fellowship Examination.
U-M hosts conference on “Future Directions in Health Services Research,” organized by the newly formed Health Services Research Group, a cross-campus organization of health services researchers.
The U-M HSR Group holds its second conference, which discussed developing a proposal for a health services research center.
The Monitoring the Future study, which annually surveys approximately 50,000 American young people on behaviors, attitudes, and values, begins under ISR.
Following a long tradition of university-governmental cooperation, SPH faculty and students help create a new Michigan State Public Health Code; the code becomes model for other states.
U-M establishes the Health Services Research Center, located within the Office of the Vice President for Research, after receiving one of five original awards from the National Center for Health Services Research (a predecessor of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality). U-M’s center continued through 1979.
The U-M Center for Nursing Research is established and nursing research becomes central to the mission of the School of Nursing.
1986-2010
Interdisciplinary collaborations flourish in health services research, as investigators organize themselves and develop new partnerships around pressing questions related to healthcare quality, costs, access, and equity. Beginning in the 1990s, U-M’s own health system developed and implemented innovative health programs with high intensity medical and disease management (first used in pilot insurance products with Ford and General Motors—Partnership Health and ActiveCare), and many of these are still used in UMHS initiatives.
Photo: U-M RWJF Clinical Scholars and program faculty, 2009. Credit: RWJF Clinical Scholars Program.
In response to the need to contain medical costs, U-M establishes M-CARE, becoming the second university in the U.S. to create its own managed care program. M-CARE also reviewed, facilitated, and supported clinical and health services research activities and provided a rich source of healthcare data for analysis. It was acquired by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in 2006.
The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients is established through a contract to Arbor Research by HRSA (AHRQ’s predecessor). The SRTR is an ever expanding national database of transplant statistics that supports ongoing evaluation of the scientific and clinical status of solid organ transplantation.
This information is used to help develop evidence-based policy, to support analysis of transplant programs and organ procurement organizations, and to encourage research on issues of importance to the transplant community. From 2000 to 2010, Arbor Research, as the SRTR contractor, and in collaboration with U-M, developed Simulated Allocation Models (SAMs) to study and report on changes in kidney, liver, and lung transplant practices that followed changes in allocation policies. This research contributed to thousands of additional life-years saved by organ transplantation by evidence-based changes to deceased donor organ allocation in the U.S.
U-M School of Public Health, Professor Kenneth Warner
SPH Professor Kenneth Warner serves as senior scientific editor of the 25th anniversary Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health. His Congressional testimony in 1985 helped solidify federal taxation as a smoking disincentive.
The Geriatric Research and Training Center is established at U-M, the first in the U.S., through a grant from the National Institute on Aging.
SPH Professor Avedis Donabedian publishes the Seven Pillars of Quality. The Donabedian Paradigm forms the basis for the statistical model used to rank hospitals and health care facilities.
The U.S. National Nursing Home Resident Assessment Instrument (V 1.0 and 2.0) is implemented.
The instrument was implemented in 1991 by Brant Fries and collaborators in every nursing home in the U.S. to improve care planning. Computerization was mandated in 1998 and, since then, 13 million assessments have been performed every year in the U.S. In addition, 13 assessment systems for frail, elderly, and disabled persons in other sectors that have been implemented around the world, ranging from palliative care assessment instruments adopted across Ontario to home care assessments used in 20 U.S. states as well as Iceland, Belgium, and Finland, and acute care assessment systems used throughout Australia and Belgium. Algorithms based on these assessment systems are being used for determining eligibility for nursing home care under Medicaid in Michigan, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Jersey. Fries and collaborators also developed the Resource Utilization Groups (RUGs), Version III and Version IV: A case-mix system, based on the national nursing home Resident Assessment Instrument, used to categorize residents based on intensity of resource use. The system is used to pay all U.S. nursing homes under Medicare’s Prospective Payment System ($33 billion/year), acknowledging differences in the cost of caring for their patients. RUG-III was implemented nationwide in 1998, RUG-IV in 2010. These systems are also used in three other nations to adjust payment to nursing homes. Nine independent validations have shown it to predict the cost of care in other nations as well.
The Health and Retirement Study begins under the auspices of ISR. It has grown to become the largest and most representative longitudinal panel study of Americans over the age of 50.
The Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center (SMITREC) is established at the Ann Arbor VA in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry. SMITREC is now co-located with CCMR.
Photo credit: U-M School of Public Health
SPH Professor Arnold Monto conducts a major study of the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine in the elderly, the findings from which help convince Medicare policymakers to make the flu vaccine a covered benefit.
The U-M Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (KECC), a collaboration of the School of Public Health and the Medical School, is formed with the awarding of the United States Renal Data System contract to the University of Michigan.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research program admits its first cohort at U-M.
Members of U-M RWJF Scholars in Health Policy Research cohorts 17 & 18 and faculty.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program launches at U-M. In 2017, the final cohort of scholars completed the program at U-M, which trained 126 fellows.
The Ann Arbor VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Excellence, a future IHPI local partner, is established; it is now the Center for Clinical Management Research (CCMR).
The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) is established by Arbor Research. Now conducted in more than 20 countries, the DOPPS family of studies has illuminated the effects of dialysis practices on a wide range of patient outcomes.
DOPPS, developed by investigators at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, and joined by co-investigators from U-M, has produced hundreds of peer-reviewed studies examining global dialysis practices and their impact on patient outcomes ranging from anemia management in end-stage renal disease to bone and mineral metabolism in dialysis patients. Variability in practice at the dialysis facility level and at the country level and a novel cohort study design incorporating randomly selected facilities and randomly selected incident dialysis patients, enabled DOPPS researchers to document the critical importance of native arteriovenous fistula over prosthetic graft or temporary catheter-based dialysis. More recently, the DOPPS Practice Monitor (DPM) has examined the effects of changing reimbursement systems (the so-called ESRD bundle) on dialysis practice, access to care, management of anemia, and a host of other outcomes important to patients, providers, and payers.
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health, a future IHPI local partner, was founded by U-M researchers as the University Renal Research and Education Association (URREA); it was renamed in 2006 to better reflect the breadth of its efforts to improve patient care and support the development of sound public healthcare policies.
The U-M Injury Prevention Center had its origins as the Injury Research Center (founded within the Department of Emergency Medicine by Ron Maio), which in 2010 merged with the Center for Injury Prevention among Youth (founded by Jean Shope in 2008). The Injury Prevention Center was designated a CDC-funded Injury Control Research Center in 2012.
A group of five hospitals in Michigan – led by U-M cardiologists and supported by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation and Blue Care Network – launches the Blue Cross Blue Shield Cardiovascular Consortium-Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (BMC2-PCI), an initiative to study variation in angioplasty. This first Collaborative Quality Initiative (CQI) paved the way for more than 20 other BCBSM initiatives, most of them led by U-M medical faculty, to collect, analyze, and share data to improve healthcare processes and outcomes across some of the most common and costly areas of healthcare in Michigan.
The Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Unit is established within the Department of Pediatrics. CHEAR has since grown to include formal representation from 10 U-M schools and colleges, and informal/collaborative links with many other schools and departments.
M-CHOIR, the research arm of the U-M Comprehensive Hand and Upper Extremity Center, conducts a wide array of clinical and health services research.
The first cohort begins the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program at U-M.
The Master’s of Science in Health and Health Care Research program is established through Rackham Graduate School, originally designed for scholars who were admitted to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at U-M (now the IHPI Clinician Scholars Program). Today, IHPI administers the Master’s program.
The Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID), jointly run by SPH and the Medical School, is established at U-M.
The U-M Center for Managing Chronic Disease (CMCD), dedicated to helping people control the effects of chronic illness by conducting research that develops new and better ways to support patients and their caregivers in disease management, is established at U-M.
Altarum Institute, a future IHPI local partner which traces its roots to 1946 with a group of U-M engineering professors, sets its singular strategic focus on health and healthcare.
The Cancer Surveillance & Outcomes Research Team (CanSORT), an interdisciplinary group of investigators at U-M dedicated to studying cancer quality of care, is established.
The Healthy Minds Study (HMS), an annual survey examining mental health service utilization and related issues among undergraduate and graduate students, launches. HMS, based in the School of Public Health with significant involvement from the Institute for Social Research and the U-M Depression Center, has been fielded at more than 125 college and university campuses across the U.S. and internationally, with over 150,000 survey respondents.
The Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT), a future IHPI local partner, is established as a nonprofit partnership between U-M and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, created as part of U-M’s sale of its M-CARE health plan.
The CHEAR Unit establishes the National Poll on Children’s Health, which measures opinions, perceptions, and priorities regarding major healthcare issues and trends for U.S. children and people in their communities.
The Dow Division for Urologic Health Services Research is established within the Department of Urology.
Mathematica Policy Research, a future IHPI local partner, opens its Ann Arbor office.
Located at the U-M School of Social Work, the Curtis Center for Health Equity Research and Training is dedicated to furthering society’s understanding of social and behavioral health conditions and to improve the lives of marginalized populations.
U-M acquires the former Pfizer pharmaceutical research campus in Ann Arbor and establishes the North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), IHPI’s future headquarters.
Clinical Database to Support Comparative Effectiveness Studies of Complex Patients, 2005-2010 -AHRQ grant is awarded to College of Pharmacy investigators.
This project developed a unique relational database, linking chronic disease clinical information from the electronic medical records (EMR) of the U-M Health System to multi-payer claims data. The database is dynamic, with most information available for between 2 and 5 years, and has strong potential for sustainability. The database can be used to evaluate the quality of clinical care as well as models of care delivery that are particularly important for complex patients, such as the patient-centered medical home, transitional care, and complex care coordination. This project concerned AHRQ priority populations, including low-income and uninsured patients, older adult patients, and patients with diabetes. The population of patients used consisted of those patients who were attributed to the UMHS as continuing care patients, who were also in adjudicated and validated chronic disease registries. These registries organize EMR diagnostic and management information for patients with physician adjudicated chronic disease diagnoses. Complete claims are available for most of the relevant patient population.
The Center for Health Outcomes & Policy (CHOP), a consortium of more than 100 faculty and staff, including clinician scientists, economists, biostatisticians, epidemiologists and other social scientists from the Medical School and School of Public Health, is established at U-M.
The Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (CBSSM), supported by the Dean’s Office at the Medical School, the Department of Internal Medicine, the Department of Psychiatry, and the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Medical Center (Center for Clinical Management Research), is established at U-M.
CHEPS collaborators involved in a project to improve surgical instrument reprocessing.
The Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) is established within the College of Engineering.
Incorporating research from the U-M Center for Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID), comprehensive healthcare reform is enacted through the Affordable Care Act, including provisions to authorize health plans nationwide to remove barriers for high-value preventive medical services.
2011 and beyond
The early 21st century has seen previously unprecedented challenges and opportunities for the U.S. healthcare system. Recognizing the tremendous potential for providing a common home for the many rich veins of ongoing research, programs, and partnerships at U-M at a most critical time for healthcare in the U.S., the U-M Regents approved the creation of the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation (IHPI) in 2011. This milestone paralleled the proliferation of large healthcare data sets, a continued focus on healthcare accessibility, safety, affordability, effectiveness, cost-transparency, patient-centered care, and an ever-growing demand for translating health services research to inform public policy.
IHPI members gather at the 2014 annual forum.
The Master of Health Informatics degree program is established jointly by U-M School of Public Health and School of Information.
The Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation is approved by the Board of Regents. The original cohort of faculty members is 318 individuals.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implement a new dialysis payment system developed by the U-M Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (KECC), which leads to a reduction of approximately $225 million per year in Medicare payments for dialysis.
Under the leadership of interim Institute Director Rodney Hayward, IHPI opens its administrative headquarters at the North Campus Research Complex.
John Z. Ayanian joins U-M as inaugural Director of IHPI. He split his time between U-M and his previous roles at Harvard University’s Medical School and School of Public Health during this first year.
The first IHPI Leadership Team is appointed, with 10 senior faculty members from five U-M schools and colleges. Gail Campanella is appointed as IHPI Managing Director.
The Center for Clinical Outcomes Development and Application (CODA), whose mission is to achieve excellence in measurement development, selection, and application to improve clinical health research and care, is established at U-M.
U-M KECC is awarded a five-year federal contract, with a sub-contract to Arbor Research collaborators, to serve as the coordinating center for the United States Renal Data System.
IHPI begins an evaluation of the Healthy Michigan Plan, the state’s expansion of Medicaid, under a multi-year contract with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
The Medical School begins offering medical students the choice to pursue a Path of Excellence in Health Policy and Health Economics, in collaboration with IHPI.
IHPI grows to 465 members with more than $500 million in extramural research funding. The Institute establishes a National Advisory Board of top leaders in healthcare and health services research.
IHPI becomes one of four host sites of the National Clinician Scholars Program, which trains physicians and nurses together to lead policy-relevant research and mobilize partnerships to improve health and healthcare.
The Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education brings together the health science schools on all three U-M campuses to support the advancement of curriculum, culture, faculty development, and research to transform the future of collaborative health practice.
In collaboration with the National Clinician Scholars Program, IHPI’s first Clinician Scholars begin their two-year training program on addressing new and emerging issues related to healthcare delivery and improving the health of communities. IHPI’s inaugural CSP cohort includes nurse, physician, and pharmacist researchers.
MiCHAMP is a multidisciplinary research collaborative harnessing existing national, regional and local healthcare data to develop medical prediction models that address complex clinical problems.
The Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network, an initiative to develop a novel preventative approach to the opioid epidemic in the state of Michigan, launches with support from IHPI.
The Michigan Program on Value Enhancement (MPrOVE), a collaboration between IHPI and Michigan Medicine, is established.
CEHR is charged with advancing our knowledge of health system reform through improving the process of academic research.
The university celebrates 200 years of achievement.
CEPI’s work spans many areas of health services research in ophthalmology, collaborating across the U-M and beyond using an interdisciplinary approach to address some of the most pressing issues facing patients and the delivery of eye care.
IHPI, with sponsorship from AARP and Michigan Medicine, launches the National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA). The poll taps into the perspectives of people throughout the U.S. to help inform clinicians, researchers, and policymakers about a range of aging-related topics.
CIPPH works to address the most vexing problems faced by patients and vulnerable populations.
IHPI membership grows to 500 faculty across U-M.
The Concussion Center (UMCC) conducts multi-disciplinary research to answer crucial questions about concussion prevention, identification, diagnosis, management, and outcomes to advance patient health and support outreach and engagement programs for communities.
The Center’s mission is to democratize the use of big data to improve human health by disseminating user-friendly analytic and visualization tools for health researchers aspiring to reduce disease and improve health for the population and the patient.
The COG-HSR Program‘s mission is to perform interdisciplinary research, publishing, and training that aims to optimize brain health and impact public policy in order to protect and improve the health and well-being of individuals.
The overarching aim of the Preventing Harms through Discovery and Innovation (Pivot) Hub at the U-M School of Nursing is to revolutionize thinking around preventing healthcare-associated harm through training, collaboration with healthcare systems, and research.
The institute grows from its original cohort of 318 members to 600 and counting. IHPI members hail from 18 U-M schools, colleges, and institutes, span all three U-M campuses, and represent 30+ specialized health services research centers and programs.
UM-CDHW develops and applies innovative research, clinical, and educational strategies to address inequities in healthcare access, quality, and outcomes experienced by individuals with physical, sensory and developmental disabilities across the lifespan.
IHPI researchers and clinicians have played a critical role in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, building models to project virus spread and its impact on populations, developing clinical resources and guidelines for the frontlines of care, and creating data registries to better understand treatment outcomes.
Launched with a $10 million gift from Tachi and Leslie Yamada, CGHE brings together faculty and staff from across the U-M community with external partners in pursuit of novel global health solutions that can positively impact individuals and communities in low- and middle-income settings.
Under this initiative, U-M researchers rigorously evaluate telehealth policies and telehealth programs to determine population-level impact on healthcare costs, quality, access and patient experience.
This initiative collects and shares findings of workforce diversification and health equity assessments to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
On May 19, 2021, the Institute marked its first decade of developing, sharing, and implementing evidence and critical insights in healthcare policy and practice. Read more in 10 Years of Collaboration, Evidence, and Impact.
Trish Meyer becomes IHPI’s second Managing Director.
CAPRA focuses on science that informs government and healthcare organization actions to address the negative impacts of dementia on the health and financial well-being of individuals and the population.
The University of Michigan Medical School celebrates 175 years of shaping medical and scientific leaders, advancing discovery and innovation, and caring for the people of Michigan and beyond. View highlights of its history here.
As we look to the years ahead, IHPI remains committed to our goal of improving health and healthcare for individuals, families, and communities through world-class, policy-relevant research. IHPI continues to evolve to respond to persistent and emerging challenges to our nation’s health.