Center for Health Services Research

We seek to understand health care through research into its conduct, organization, outcomes, and effectiveness

Getting Answers
Investigations such as the Nashville Men´s Health Study will provide critical information for characterizing potential associations between obesity and prostate cancer.

Building Tomorrow
The Center for Health Services Research is committed to developing our understanding of optimal health care and the clinicians and researchers who can rapidly move discovery forward.

Changing Lives
Our research is providing real-world information to improve health care; for example, one of our recent studies underscores parents´ difficulties in understanding children´s medication labels.

Highlights

Russell Rothman, M.D., MPP, named Director of the Center for Health Services Research. Read more.

Download the 2011 Tennessee Women´s Health Report Card

Download the 2010 Tennessee Men´s Health Report Card.

View recent publications from Center faculty.

About Us

The Center for Health Services Research at Vanderbilt includes talented, multidisciplinary researchers and clinicians dedicated to exploring critical issues in health care and working towards innovative solutions. Our goal is to improve health through interdisciplinary research into the conduct, organization, outcomes, and effectiveness of all aspects of health care.

The Center includes over 100 affiliated faculty and staff representing disciplines including clinical medicine, nursing, public health, social sciences, management sciences, and the humanities. Key research foci of the Center include: clinical epidemiology and outcomes research, clinical improvement and operations research, clinical economics and decision science, health promotion and disease management, behavioral health, and health policy.