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Melinda Buntin, PhD, to help lead new online journal for JAMA

  Melinda Buntin, Ph.D., Mike Curb professor of health policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy, has been named the deputy editor for a new online channel published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA.

Breaking down Pelosi’s drug plan

​   There is consensus in a divided political climate in Washington that something must be done to address the rising cost of prescription drugs.

Lecture explores Medicare for All’s potential impacts

(Shared from an article originally published by the VUMC Reporter.) By Jill Clendening The concept of a single-payer, government-run health care program — Medicare for All — has sparked national debate, and that proposal was the focus of a spirited discussion on Nov. 19 at the Research into Policy and Practice Lecture sponsored by the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

New study aims at opioids and overdoses in Tennessee

  A new study from Melissa McPheeters, PhD, MPH, research professor of health policy, finds that “prescribing (opioids) is common in Tennessee before an overdose, does not decrease appreciably afterward, and MAT may be underutilized as increases in buprenorphine were not observed after overdose events.”