Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research

About Us Who we are The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research (or Sheps Center) is a unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Overview The Center’s director reports to the Vice Chancellor for Research. Oversight responsibility of the Center is vested in an Advisory Board whose members include senior faculty and administrators from the 5 health science schools, departments from the Division of Academic Affairs, as well as representatives of the health services community at large. The director receives assistance in planning and leading the Center’s activities from four deputy directors and from program directors responsible for specific substantive areas of research. Mission The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research seeks to improve the health of individuals, families, and populations by understanding the problems, issues, and alternatives in the design and delivery of health care services. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary program of research, consultation, technical assistance, and training that focuses on timely and policy-relevant questions concerning the accessibility, adequacy, organization, cost, effectiveness, and equity of health care services and the dissemination of this information to policymakers and the general public.