Stanford Medicine-Center for Population Health Sciences: Seminar Series

Peter Muennig, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management
Columbia University

"Can We Expect Health or Monetary Returns on Investments in Cash Assistance, Education, and Transit Policies?"

Please register here for Peter Muennig's talk on December 15th, 2016. 

Accountable Care Organizations, the Centers for Medicare Studies, and the Affordable Care Act have all created a push toward the primary prevention of disease by addressing the non-medical determinants of health. This push has raised a number of questions with respect to which policies might actually address the non-medical determinants of health, which ones are appropriate for health care providers to address, and whether referrals to existing agencies will actually have any impact on the targets of existing programs and legislation (e.g., emergency department utilization and 30-day readmission rates). After a 25-minute presentation, we will have an actively-led discussion of these issues and will try to contextualize the discussion within what we know about the coming changes within the Trump administration.

*Note venue room change to LKSC 320, 3rd floor.