Events and Event Calendar

Please use the links to the right to find our current and past events.

For any questions about specific events, please contact:

Jake Lowary, Program Manager/Communications Director: jacob.lowary@vumc.org

Zorah Taplin, Associate Program Manager: zorah.taplin@vumc.org

For general inquiries about events and other questions, please email us at hpevents@vanderbilt.edu

Upcoming Events

Health Policy Grand Rounds: John Jackson, PhD

Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021

More details forthcoming.

Past Events

Conversations With Dr. Anthony Fauci

Health Policy Grand Rounds: Yolanda McDonald, PhD

WEBINAR: Vanderbilt Child Health Poll & The Impact of COVID-19 on Tennessee Parents and Kids

Dr. Kyla Terhune leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Dr. Kyla Terhune leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Melinda Buntin, PhD, Chair of the Department of Health Policy, leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Melinda Buntin, PhD, introduces Dr. Farzad Mostashari, CEO of Aledade, Inc., keynote speaker at the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari speaks with an attendee during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
An attendee discusses a portion of the keynote lecture with Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO of Aledade, Inc.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari leads a lecture during the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
An attendee discusses a portion of the keynote lecture with Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO of Aledade, Inc.
Melinda Buntin, PhD, Chair of the Department of Health Policy, leads a Q&A session alongside Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO of Aledade, Inc. following his lecture at the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
Farzad Mostashari, MD, CEO of Aledade, speaks with an attendee following his lecture at the 2019 Value-Based Health Care Delivery Seminar.

2017 Fall Research Into Policy and Practice Lecture

Department Chair Melinda Buntin, Tennessee Insurance Commissioner Julie Mix McPeak, and Assistant Professor John Graves

Perspectives on Health Care Reform Panel: From Obamacare to the American Health Care Act - April 2017 RIPPL Series

Dr. Gilbert Gonzales - Department of Health Policy
Dr. Tara McKay - Center for Medicine, Health & Society
Dr. Wendy Long - Director of TennCare
Eric Harkness -Director of the Office of Health Policy at the Tennessee Department of Health
Craig Becker - President and CEO of the Tennessee Hospital Association (THA)

27th Annual Health Economics Conference - October 13-14, 2016

Jonathan Perlin, President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer, HCA
Jonathan Perlin, President, Clinical Services and Chief Medical Officer, HCA
Jonathan Gruber, Ph.D., Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amanda Starc, Northwestern University
Michael Richards, Vanderbilt University

2016 Annual Department Picnic

2015 Research Into Policy and Practice Lecture Series - Caring for the Uninsured: A National, State and Local Perspective

Melinda Buntin, Department Chair and Professor of Health Policy
Dexter Samuels, Senior Vice President for Student Affairs & Executive Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College
Megan Barry, Mayor of Nashville, Tennesee
Nicole Comeaux, Deputy Executive Director, Kentucky Health Benefit Exchange
David Blumenthal, President, The Commonwealth Fund

2015 Research Into Policy and Practice Lecture Series: Reflections on the ACA

Former White House Chief of Staff for Policy, and principal architect of the ACA, Nancy-Ann DeParle
Wayne J. Riley, M.D., MPH, MBA, MACP President, American College of Physicians, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Management, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University
Department Chair and Moderator, Melinda Buntin

2015 Value Based Health Care Seminar - October 14th - 15th 2015

Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Dean, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Michael Porter, PhD, MBA, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School
Justin Bachmann, David Posch, Marilyn Dubree, & Titus Daniels
Rangaraj Ramanujam, Professor of Management, Owen Graduate Business School
Department Chair Melinda Buntin