Company Profile
Center for Mississippi Health Policy
Company Overview
The Center for Mississippi Health Policy, established in 2005, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization that provides objective research and analysis to inform health policy decisions. The Center’s work involves communicating research, examining health status and health care delivery trends, and analyzing relevant health policy issues affecting Mississippi.
Company History
The Center’s projects have encompassed a variety of topics including the state’s trauma care system, children’s mental health, distracted driving, health insurance coverage, food and nutrition policy, prescription drug misuse, infant mortality, rural hospitals, childhood immunizations, and telemedicine. The Center also directed a five-year grant project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Bower Foundation, in collaboration with three Mississippi universities, to evaluate the impact of the Mississippi Healthy Students Act on childhood obesity in the state.