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The Health Policy Forum at Rice University’s Baker Institute is a membership-based group whose corporate and private contributors help support the Baker Institute’s health policy research. The Baker Institute is across the street from the Texas Medical Center (TMC), the nation’s largest medical complex. Drawing on the expertise of both Rice University and the TMC, the forum offers a unique setting for medical and policy professionals to discuss issues of growing concern, including options for controlling skyrocketing medical costs, improving access to health care, and managing the growing burden of diseases such as diabetes and obesity. The forum also provides objective analysis of reform proposals. The goal of the Health Policy Forum is to facilitate the exchange of ideas in order to spur groundbreaking research and policy decisions, and to foster improved understanding of national and global health concerns, as well as those in Texas, so as to improve the quality of the health care system overall.

In the tradition of the Baker Institute, the Health Policy Forum publishes studies and hosts workshops, seminars and lectures. We discuss a wide variety of topics, including national health care reform, achieving efficient and high-quality health care, health insurance coverage and the evaluation of complex medical technologies. Corporate and private support is vital to the effort to expand the scope of the Health Policy Forum.

Established in 2004, the Baker Institute Health Economics Program is a central component of the Health Policy Forum. The mission of the program is to study the ways in which economic incentives and government policies influence the quality and costs of health care on a global, national and regional basis, focusing on the need to deliver high-quality medical care while controlling expenditures. In recent years, the program has received national acclaim for its research on state regulation of cardiac surgery, as well as for its analysis of regional imbalances in the supply of specialists. Its work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society and other nonprofit organizations.

PUBLICATIONS
2013
Medicaid costs driven by poverty
May 13 2013
Elena M. Marks
Eliminating Neglect and Neglected Tropical Diseases
Apr 23 2013
Peter J. Hotez
Where Are the Scientist-Advocates and Civic-Scientists?
Apr 03 2013
Peter J. Hotez, Neal F. Lane
The Disease Next Door
Mar 25 2013
Peter J. Hotez
Cancer in Texas: Analyzing the Links
Mar 09 2013
Vivian Ho
Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Recommendations for Realizing Legislative Goals
Mar 08 2013
Vivian Ho
Health Policy Research Newsletter -- March 2013
Mar 04 2013
Vivian Ho
A New European Neglected Diseases Center for Greece?
Feb 28 2013
Peter J. Hotez, T. Dorina Papageorgiou
Healthy Communities Indicator Report 2013
Feb 26 2013
Elena M. Marks
Global Economic Burden of Chagas Disease: A Computational Simulation Model
Feb 08 2013
Peter J. Hotez, Bruce Y. Lee, Kristina M. Bacon, Maria Elena Bottazzi
A Reunification Rx for Korea
Jan 24 2013
Peter J. Hotez
Using Comparative-Effectiveness Research to Improve Care
Jan 10 2013
Vivian Ho
2012
Health Policy Research Newsletter -- December 2012
Nov 30 2012
Vivian Ho
Engaging a Rising China Through Neglected Tropical Diseases
Nov 29 2012
Peter J. Hotez
Comparing the validity of different measures of illness severity: A hospital-level analysis for acute myocardial infarction
Nov 28 2012
Afschin Gandjour, Meei-Hsiang Ku-Goto, Vivian Ho
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