Center for Healthcare Value and Effectiveness
The LSU Health New Orleans Center for Healthcare Value and Effectiveness (CHVE) improves the health of the people of Louisiana by:
Advancing evidence-based health policy and population health services
Fostering novel partnerships and programmatic innovation with local, state, and federal agencies and national partners
Leading rigorous research and evaluation
Disseminating and communicating advances in science and knowledge
Providing education benefiting the health of Louisiana communities
The Center for Healthcare Value and Effectiveness (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.
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 - Marcus Bachhuber, MD, MPH
- Colten Creel, MD, MPH, MS - Assistant Professor Medicine, Infectious Diseases
- Richard Culbertson, PhD, Professor and Director, Health Policy Systems Management, School of Public Health
- Vanessa de la Cruz, MD - Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Olivia Sugarman, PhD - Assistant Scientist
- Gala True, PhD - Professor, Community and Population Medicine
- Seth Vignes, MD - Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Staff
- Chris Adkins, MSW - Associate Director, Community Health Worker Institute
- Amber Goff - Program Coordinator
- Amber Jolla - Project Coordinator
- Kate MacWilliams, MPH - Program Coordinator
- Isha Matta, MPH - Program Manager, Education
- Kira Wortmann, MPA - Associate Director, Research and Evaluation