To train a new generation of policy-oriented researchers that transcend their disciplinary training to think critically about the inherently interdisciplinary and complex dynamics of medical innovation
To conduct research projects that carefully analyze how historical, economic, institutional, and regulatory factors affect the rate and direction of innovation in medicine, as well as suggest promising areas for future policy change
To disseminate these results to a wide range of important players in the health care arena.
The Consortium is led by faculty in Medicine, Public Health, Public Policy, Business, Economics, Sociology and Education at Columbia and Stanford University.