Health Law

Congressional Budget Office (CBO):

• Health Care
  CBO prepares projections of federal health care spending under current law and analyzes proposals that would change federal health care policies.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):

The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services.

Selected Offices:

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  Conducts and supports health services research to improve the quality of health care.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  Coordinates and supports population-based programs to prevent and control disease, injury, and disability. Supports data collection and disease surveillance.

• Indian Health Service (IHS)
  Supports a health care delivery system for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  Conducts and supports basic, clinical, and translational biomedical and behavioral research.

• Office of Minority Health (OMH)
  Supports health policies and programs that improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations.

• American Bar Association: Health Law Section
• American Health Law Association
• American Hospital Association (AHA)
• American Medical Association (AMA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• The Commonwealth Fund
• Guttmacher Institute
• GW Climate and Health Institute
• GW Milken Institute School of Public Health: GW Health Policy & Management
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
• John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Center for Law and the Public's Health
• McKinsey & Company: Insights on Healthcare
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): Health
• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM): Health and Medicine
• National Health Law Program
• RAND Corporation: RAND Health Care
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Urban Institute: Health Policy Center