Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research

Located in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research (CHSOR) is one of the oldest and most productive health care research centers in the US. Established in 1969, CHSOR conducts multidisciplinary research on policies and practices, with a special focus on their impact on quality of care and patient-centered outcomes. With rapid changes in the health care system, research is needed to guide those changes, and priority is given to research on Federal and state policy issues. Effort is devoted to using evidence to accomplish positive changes, with special attention paid to vulnerable population groups.