
Global Health Policy
Duke-Margolis's vision for global health policy is to accelerate and support health system transformation to achieve better population health while promoting efficiency, equity and high-quality care. Our aim is inform systematic policy, financing, organizational changes, and sustainable care delivery models that lead to measurable improvements of population health and reductions in health disparities.
Projects Relating to Global Health Policy
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DeciBHAL
DeciBHAL is a Markov microsimulation model of hearing loss natural history, diagnosis, and treatment across the lifespan. DeciBHAL was developed in conjunction with the Lancet Commission on Hearing Loss, and it can be used to project the clinical and economic outcomes of different hearing healthcare interventions to produce cost-effectiveness estimates and guide resource allocation. DeciBHAL is...
DeciBHAL is a Markov microsimulation model of hearing loss natural history, diagnosis, and treatment...
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Women-Inspired Strategies for Healthcare
Led by Duke Center for Global Women's Health Technologies, and in partnership with HOPE Peru (led by Dra. Patricia Garcia, former Minister of Health), Duke-Margolis is bringing expertise in health financing and health policy to analyze policy barriers and propose policy solutions to make cervical cancer prevention, screening, and treatment more equitable.
Led by Duke Center for Global Women's Health Technologies, and in partnership with HOPE Peru (led by...
Read MoreDuke-Margolis Faculty & Research Team

Beth Boyer, MPH
Policy Research Associate

Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, MPAff
Associate Research Director

Herbert Kim Lyerly, MD
George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Margolis Core Faculty

Mark McClellan, MD, PhD
Director of Margolis Center
Robert J. Margolis, MD, Professor of Business, Medicine and Policy
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Osondu Ogbuoji, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Research Professor of Global Health
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Jay Pearson, MPH, Ph.D.
Margolis Affiliated Faculty
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Global Health

Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu, MSc
Senior Policy Analyst

Nimmi Ramanujam, PhD
Robert W. Carr, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Margolis Core Faculty

David Ridley, PhD
Professor of the Practice of Business and Economics
Margolis Executive Core Faculty

Christina Silcox, PhD
Research Director, Digital Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
Frank Sloan, PhD
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management

Corinna Sorenson, PhD, MHSA, MPH
Faculty Director of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies
Senior Advisor and Founding Director, Margolis Scholars Program
Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences and Public Policy
Margolis Core Faculty
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Andrea Thoumi, MPP, MSc
Health Equity Policy Fellow
Faculty Director of Health Equity Educational Programming
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Core Faculty Member
Adjunct Assistant Professor
2020 Intern Mentor

Krishna Udayakumar, MD, MBA
Director of Post-Graduate Education Initiatives, Margolis Center
Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH
Hymowitz Professor of the Practice of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute
Margolis Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor
Events About Global Health Policy
More EventsEvent 4/12/2022
Duke-Margolis 2022 Inaugural Health Policy Conference
WASHINGTON, DC
The Duke-Margolis Inaugural Health Policy Conference will engage national health policy experts,…
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Payment and Care Reforms to Achieve the 3rd Beyond 2019: Insights on Quality to Value.
2019 Singapore Conference
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2019 Symposium: Regional Approaches to the Development and Use of Real-World Data and Evidence
2019 Symposium in Singapore
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2018 Symposium: Delivering Value with Innovative Healthcare Financing and Systems
2018 Symposium in Singapore
Read MorePublications About Global Health Policy
More PublicationsCommentary
White Paper
Design of a Transferable Exclusivity Voucher Program
Beth Boyer, Adam Kroetsch, David Ridley
Beth Boyer, Adam Kroetsch, David Ridley
2022
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We’re part of a planning group for a covid-19 commission. Here’s why we need one.
Marc Lipsitch, Mark McClellan and Robert Rodriguez
Marc Lipsitch, Mark McClellan and Robert Rodriguez
2021
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Why America’s Next Covid Push Should Be Outside America
Mark McClellan, Krishna Udayakumar, Michael Merson, Gary Edson
Mark McClellan, Krishna Udayakumar, Michael Merson, Gary Edson
2021
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More NewsNews Update February 27, 2018
Analysis: Are We on Track to Achieve SDG Goals for Maternal and Child Health?
Seventy-nine countries are off track to meet ambitious global health targets for maternal and child health, according to an analysis by researchers from the Brookings Institution and the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI). If those countries were to recover and accelerate their progress according...
Seventy-nine countries are off track to meet ambitious global health targets for maternal and child...
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Global results from Accountable Care, Frugal Innovation have potential for US policy
The November issue of the journal Health Affairs highlights three studies from Duke University and collaborators that examine implementation of accountable care worldwide, and lay out key lessons from a global analysis of accountable care reforms and frugal innovations that could improve healthcare...
The November issue of the journal Health Affairs highlights three studies from Duke University and...
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