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Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies
The Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies was the first interdisciplinary health policy research group to be part of a major health sciences campus. It was established in 1972 as the Health Policy Program by Philip R. Lee, MD, with a small group of faculty members whose backgrounds were in medicine, pharmacology, ethics, and law. In 1981, the Board of Regents of the University of California established the Institute for Health Policy Studies as an organized research unit within the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 2007, the Institute became the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, named after its founding director. The Institute’s Directors have been: Philip R. Lee (1972-1993); Harold Luft, PhD (1993-2008); Claire Brindis, DrPH (2008 – present).

PRL-IHPS collaborates closely with UCSF schools and departments, other universities, the private sector, government, and community-based organizations to address issues critical to the health of the public. its faculty work in and often across three primary areas: Healthcare Systems, Population Health and Determinants, and Clinical Practice.