The UNC Healthcare Case Competition is an interdisciplinary event designed to leverage students’ unique learning, development, and career experiences by challenging them to develop an innovative solution to a relevant healthcare issue. This is a great venue for graduate students to showcase their leadership, critical thinking, creativity, and network with other future healthcare leaders—in addition to winning a prize! Graduate students from […]
This year’s free virtual event, Leading the Next Generation of Health, will explore how to move forward as leaders, future leaders, and consumers of healthcare after the sector experienced massive disruption in 2020 and continues to face uncertain times. Panels and speakers will address business challenges and opportunities, with a specific emphasis on how to lead through change.
Jevay Grooms, PhD is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Economics at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She is an applied microeconomist with research areas of interests that lie at the intersection of public economics, health economics, and studies of poverty and inequality. Her overall research agenda is to study the impediments to adequate health care delivery and health outcomes of underserved and […]
The pandemic hastened a growing trend to deliver more health care at home rather than in traditional health care settings. Health systems across the country are investing in the home as an alternative to hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. How will this shift affect the quality and costs of care? How can policy and payment adapt to support these new […]
Laura Wherry is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Service at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her research focuses on the changing role of the Medicaid program and its impact on access to health care and health. Her recent work examines the early effects of the ACA’s Medicaid expansions, as well as the longer-term effects of several […]