About The Partners
- The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit organization that provides research and analysis addressing
challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. RAND Health furthers this tradition
by advancing understanding of health and health behaviors,
and examining how the organization and financing of health care affects costs, quality, and access.
- The University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences include the schools of Medicine, Nursing,
Dental Medicine, Pharmacy, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Graduate School of Public Health,
which serve as the academic partner to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Their combined mission
is to train tomorrow’s health care specialists and biomedical scientists, engage in groundbreaking research
that will advance understanding of the
causes and treatments of disease, and participate in the delivery of outstanding patient care.
- The Center for Research on Health Care is a unique, multidisciplinary training ground for talented
leaders in health services research to advance a
broad-based research agenda addressing quality, outcomes, and cost of health care.
- Magee-Women’s Research Institute is dedicated to translational research in women’s and infants’
health. Its diverse group of basic and clinical
scientists collaborate on research studies and the practical application of their findings.
