The center is based in the Department of Health Policy and Management and involves faculty from other departments in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and the Johns Hopkins Health System. Opportunities are available for students to participate in ongoing studies and to have access to research data sets developed in previous studies. Established by the Center for Disease Control, the center is based in the Department of Health Policy and Management with participants from many departments within the school and from other divisions of the university. Collaborating agencies outside the university include the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland, and the Division of Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation Services of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The center stimulates interactions through working groups in injury epidemiology, prevention, biomechanics, acute trauma care, and rehabilitation.
Opportunities are available for students to participate in the research of center faculty.
The Primary Care Policy Center for the Underserved was established in October 1996 with funding from the federal Bureau of Primary Health Care. The center conducts research directed at policy, organization, finance, and treatment related issues for persons with mental illnesses. Priority is given to research on severe mental illnesses and system capacity to meet the full range of service needs, including treatment, rehabilitation, income support, and housing. Treatment related research includes issues related to cost-effectiveness of alternative approaches and methods for quality assurance and patient outcome assessment. The center is administratively based in the Health Services Research and Development Center in the Department of Health Policy and Management.