
State Health Care Transformation
The mission of the Duke-Margolis health care transformation portfolio draws on Duke’s clinical and research expertise to identify care delivery and payment transformation strategies that have an impact in real-world settings; cultivate stakeholder engagement; and develop quantitative and qualitative evidence for supporting major payment and care delivery reforms at the practice, state, and national level. Our portfolio includes:
Practice Transformation
Payment reform evidence, with special focus on:
Consumer engagement
Population health and social health risk factors
State health policy
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COVID-19 Health Equity Learning Network
In 2021, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the National Academy for State Health Policy, and the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy convened governor-appointed health equity COVID-19 task force leaders throughout the nation. The Equity Learning Network served as a platform for sharing best and promising practices for improving health equity in the context of the...
In 2021, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, the National Academy for...
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Accountable Care Organizations
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is investigating how accountable care approaches can improve care for people with serious illness, which is a next step in the Center’s work on accountable care. In partnership with Leavitt Partners, the...
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is...
The Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is...
Read MoreDuke-Margolis Faculty & Research Team

Nancy Allen LaPointe
Faculty Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine Faculty
Margolis Core Faculty

William K. Bleser, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, Health Care Transformation for Social Needs and Health Equity
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member

Katie Huber, MPH
Senior Policy Analyst

Mark Japinga, MPAff
Research Associate

Gary Ross Maslow, MD
Margolis Core Faculty
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director of Child and Family Mental Health and Developmental Neurosci
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing

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

Yolande Pokam Tchuisseu, MSc
Senior Policy Analyst

Emily Proehl
Policy Analyst

Samantha Repka
Research Associate

Barak Richman, PhD
Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law
Margolis Executive Core Faculty
2020 Intern Mentor

Robert Saunders, PhD
Senior Research Director, Health Care Transformation
Adjunct Associate Professor
Senior Team Member
Margolis Core Faculty
Frank Sloan, PhD
J. Alexander McMahon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management

Montgomery Smith, MPH
Senior Policy Analyst

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

Brianna Van Stekelenburg, MPP
Research Associate

Rebecca Whitaker, PhD, MSPH
Research Director, North Carolina Health Care Transformation
Senior Team Member
Anti-Racism and Equity Committee Member
Events About State Health Care Transformation
More EventsEvent 2/2/2023
Building Partnerships for Better Health: Launching North Carolina's State Transformation Collaborative
DURHAM, NC
The State Transformation Collaborative is a joint federal and state-led initiative designed to…
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North Carolina Medicare-Medicaid Integration: Advancing Whole-Person Care
North Carolina is in the midst of a major shift from fee-for-service to Medicaid managed care and…
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North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots: A Medicaid Managed Care Program to Address Social Needs
On Thursday July 28, 2022 at 10:00am ET, the Duke-Margolis Center and North Carolina Institute of…
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Equitable Access to Care: Leveraging Telehealth for Medicaid Beneficiaries in North Carolina
The town hall will include study findings on telehealth use and access to care for people with…
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Addressing Social Needs through Medicaid: Lessons from Planning and Early Implementation of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots
Katie Huber, William Bleser, Rebecca Whitaker, Karina Vasudeva, Jessye Halvorson, Amanda Van Vleet, Michelle Lyn, Robert Saunders
Katie Huber, William Bleser, Rebecca Whitaker, Karina Vasudeva, Jessye Halvorson, Amanda Van Vleet, Michelle Lyn, Robert Saunders
Milbank Memorial Fund, 2023
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Health Care Use and Spending Among Need-Based Subgroups of Medicare Beneficiaries With Full Medicaid Benefits
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2023
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Opportunities to Enhance Health Equity by Integrating Community Health Workers into Payment and Care Delivery Reforms
Kamaria Kaalund, Ethan Phillips, Brandy Farrar, Krista Perreira, Monica Taylor, Magdalene Wellman, Gaurav Dave, Warren Kibbe, Michael Cohen-Wlkowiez, Andrea Thoumi
Kamaria Kaalund, Ethan Phillips, Brandy Farrar, Krista Perreira, Monica Taylor, Magdalene Wellman, Gaurav Dave, Warren Kibbe, Michael Cohen-Wlkowiez, Andrea Thoumi
2023
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More NewsPress Release May 23, 2023
Community Health Workers Key to Advancing Health Equity
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community they serve. New research shows they also are critical in the pursuit of more equitable health care. A new paper from Duke-Margolis outlines...
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of...
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News Update February 23, 2023
Topics Related to State Health Care Transformation
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Health Equity
Duke-Margolis aims to ensure that its health policy research and leadership contributes…