Welcome to the Center for Healthcare Value and Effectiveness (CHVE) website. CHVE was formed in collaboration with the Louisiana Department of Health to provide education, research, and evaluation regarding healthcare value and effectiveness in Louisiana and nationally.
CHVE's areas of activity include:
Evaluation
Providing independent external evaluations of programs and policies |
Research
Informing health care policy and enhance prevention activities through novel research |
Innovation
Supporting effective interventions that can improve health care services and outcomes |
Education
Disseminating educational resources and products of Center evaluations, research,
and programs |
Faculty
- Benjamin F. Springgate , MD , MPH - Director, Center of Healthcare Value and Effectiveness and Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Ashley Wennerstrom , PhD, MPH - Director, Center of Healthcare Value and Effectiveness
Director, Community Health Worker Institute and Associate Professor - Research - Richard Culbertson, PhD, Professor and Director, Health Policy Systems Management, School of Public Health
- Pooja Mehta, MD, MSHP - Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Staff
- Chris Adkins, MSW - Associate Director, Community Health Worker Institute
- Isha Matta, MPH - Program Manager, Education
- Kira Wortmann, MPA - Associate Director, Research and Evaluation