Comparative Effectiveness Center Receives Grant

GIM’s associate professor Jodi Segal, MD, MPH, has been notified that the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation has chosen Johns Hopkins as one of two universities in the nation to receive three-year $250,000 grants to development curriculum in comparative effectiveness research. Dr. Segal is Co-Director of the Hopkins AHRQ-NRSA Training Grant for Comparative Effectiveness Research. Dr. Segal reported that the Center for Healthcare Services and Outcomes Research at Hopkins will be using the grant to develop a Center of Excellence in Comparative Effectiveness Research Education that will offer a certificate program.

Other JHMI faculty members involved in the project are GIM's Sonal Singh, MD, MPH, and from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Albert Wu, MD, MPH in the departments of Health Policy and Management, Epidemiology, and International Health; Jill Marsteller, PhD, MPP, and Kevin Frick, PhD, MA, both from the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Further details can be found in PhRMA’s press release.