The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies was founded in 1972 as the Health Policy Program within the School of Medicine on the University of California, San Francisco campus.
The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies was founded in 1972 as the Health Policy Program within the School of Medicine on the University of California, San Francisco campus. It was the first program to bring together on the campus of a major academic health sciences center a multidisciplinary group of faculty (medicine, law, ethics, and pharmacology) committed to developing an innovative unit with health policy as its focus.
Philip R. Lee, MD, third UCSF Chancellor (1969-1972) and senior federal health policy official in two administrations (1965-1969 and (1993-1997), was founder of the Institute. In September 2007, the Institute was renamed for Dr. Lee in his honor.
Dr. Lee and other founding faculty members, Lewis H. Butler, LLB, Michael L. Parker, JD, Albert R. Jonsen, PhD, and Milton M. Silverman, PhD, were committed to providing accurate, relevant, and timely information to members of Congress and their staff, senior officials in federal agencies, California legislators, state and local health departments, health care administrators, private sector decision-makers, community-based organizations, and the public.
We conduct, synthesize, and translate research among multiple academic disciplines and fields to provide a base of evidence to share with people who make decisions about health and health care.
We focus on providing information about policy decisions that will affect people’s health and lives, from helping to improve clinical decision-making at a patient’s bedside to assessing the potential impact of state and national health legislation.
We help educate and train students, including post-doctoral fellows, in the health professions and other disciplines, for future leadership in health policy and health services research. We also help prepare fellows to take leadership in public health and health care in government at the local, state, federal and international levels, and in the non-profit and private sectors.
