Research questions are generally concerned with the social context of health care.
Often, these questions require the use of analytical techniques drawn not from the natural sciences, which have dominated the academic study of health care since the early twentieth century, but from the humanities and the social sciences, fields that are increasingly recognized as central to the mission of health care. Most of these people are affiliated with University of Michigan. They teach and study the relationships between health care and society from a wide range of non-biological perspectives, working with an extensive range of approaches and methodologies. Other participants come from Michigan State University, Wayne State University, Eastern Michgian University, and the non-academic community. External funding is provided by the Lyle C. Roll Memorial Fund, the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, and Little, Brown and Company .