Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

Cecil G. Sheps, M.D., M.P.H.

Founded in 1968, the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is one of the oldest and largest centers of its kind in the United States. Due to its unique position in the organizational structure of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Sheps Center is able to offer an extensive array of resources and services to the proposed project.

The Center supports itself with funds from the State of North Carolina, and with contracts and grants from federal government agencies, most notably the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); philanthropic foundations; as well as professional and disease-specific associations and societies, corporations, state entities outside of North Carolina, and others.

Mission

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research seeks to improve the health of individuals, families, and populations by understanding the problems, issues, and alternatives in the design and delivery of health care services. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary program of research, consultation, technical assistance, and training that focuses on timely and policy-relevant questions concerning the accessibility, adequacy, organization, cost, and effectiveness of health care services, and the dissemination of this information to policymakers and the general public

Staff

The staff of over 200 is composed of faculty-level research fellows, research assistants, programmers and data entry personnel, librarians, business office and other support staff, as well as graduate assistants, visiting international research fellows, and pre- and post-doctoral fellows.

Also affiliated with the Center are over 100 research fellows composed of faculty from more that 20 disciplines at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and several private and public agencies throughout North Carolina, and the United States.

Current Research

The Sheps Center continually assesses its research agenda to ensure that resources are applied to questions of importance to health policy... learn more