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  • Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy serves as a professional home and technical assistance resource for researchers and policy professionals. Committed to the vision of improving health and health care by generating new knowledge and moving knowledge into action, the Academy aspires to be the preeminent source for stimulating the development, understanding, and use of the best available health services research and health policy information by public and private decision makers.

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - AHRQ  Formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Provides practical health care information,  research findings, and data to help consumers, health providers, health insurers, researchers, and policymakers make informed decisions about health care issues.

  • Center for Law and the Public's Health features resources on public health law, ethics, and policy for public health practitioners, lawyers, policy-makers, and scholars.

  • The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, UK, aims to promote evidence-based health care. This site features information about the Centre and pertaining to the activities of the Centre, and information of particular relevance to Evidence-Based Health Care.

  • Duke Health Policy Cyberexchange is a portal site for health policy information on the Web.

  • The Institute for Child Health Policy's goal is to research, evaluate, formulate, and advance health policies, programs, and systems that promote the health and well-being of children and youth in the state of Florida and nationally.

  • Kaiser Network  This site provides policy information in a variety of areas, including general health, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS. 

  • MedScape is an online resource for better patient care for health professionals and interested consumers.

  • Moving Ideas Network is dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience. Their goal is to improve collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations, and to promote their work to journalists and legislators.

  • National Health Council and its member organizations share a common objective: improving the health of all people, particularly those with chronic diseases and/or disabilities. Through communication, collaboration and consensus, the Council's member organizations — representing all segments of the health care community— work to achieve this important objective.

  • The National Health Policy Forum (NHPF) is a participant-driven, non-partisan information exchange program that works to foster more informed government decision making.  It serves primarily senior staff in Congress, the executive branch, and congressional support agencies.

  • The Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) promotes better health care service in rural America.  Congress charged the Office with informing and advising the Department of Health and Human Services on matters affecting rural hospitals, and health care, co-ordinating activities within the department that relate to rural health care, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.

  • The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research conducts research on national, state, and local health policy issues, provides public service to policy makers and community leaders, and offers educational opportunities for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.


 Last Updated: September 20, 2004

The Missouri Institute of Mental Health provides the Policy Information Exchange (PIE) as a service to the mental health community.  The Institute places documents into the PIE database that are examples of sound policy research, have high policy relevance, or have been judged to be of special interest to the mental health community. The Institute does not necessarily agree with the policy positions stated in documents in the PIE database.