Healthcare is a logical first issue for the Institute to address. In addition to its critical importance in the U.S., Emory already has a strong interdisciplinary team ready to tackle the issue. To date, solutions proposed for addressing healthcare reform, and related components such as chronic disease, seem ill equipped to drive major changes in the health care industry.

A VIDEO MESSAGE FROM FRED SANFILIPPO, MD, PhD
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
CEO, Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Chairman, Emory Healthcare

True health system transformation will be successful only when all sectors—public and private, state and federal, employer and employee, academic and corporate—come to the table for our nation’s greater good. The best and most sustainable solutions will also come when we fully appreciate not only the problems but also the many opportunities at hand that should drive health care transformation.

Please view a video message outlining potential solutions to the health care crisis and identifying key priorities for the Woodruff Health Sciences Center in the coming year.

OBAMA HEALTH CARE PLAN ANALYSIS (July 22, 2008)
Making Health Care More Affordable: Estimated Savings from Care Coordination,
Lifestyle Change, and System Redesign in Senator Obama’s Health Care Plan
by Kenneth E. Thorpe, Ph.D.- Click here to read Dr. Thorpe's analysis