Robert Graham Center publications and reports

Geography helps us to understand the context in which patients live; it helps us to better understand the distribution of the health care workforce; it helps us to evaluate medical education programs in terms of the areas in which their graduates practice.

There is emerging evidence that the nation has unmet needs in a variety of medical fields including primary care, psychiatry, general surgery, and certain pediatric subspecialties.

The Graham Center is interested in producing economic research that generates new evidence and ideas to enable primary care to attain the “triple aim” of increased quality, improved outcomes, and reduced costs while informing effective policy decision-making.

The Graham Center remains a leader in workforce analysis and application development intended to reveal the following: variations in primary care workforce; primary care provider-to-population ratios that optimize outcomes and align with need; factors that influence health care professionals’ decisions to practice in a primary care setting; maldistribution of physicians after they complete their training; and effectiveness of policies meant to expand and alter the primary care workforce.