School of Medicine

Center for Healthcare Value & Effectiveness

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
evaluation

Providing independent external evaluations of programs and policies

Research
Research

Informing health care policy and enhance prevention activities through novel research

Innovation
Innovation

Supporting effective interventions that can improve health care services and outcomes

Education
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