Gordon Defriese

Biography

GORDON DeFRIESE, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Administration and Director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Some of his research interests are in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention, medical sociology, primary health care, rural health care, cost-benefit analysis, and cost-effectiveness. He is a member of the Global Advisory Group on Health Systems Research of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, past president of the Association for Health Services Research and the Foundation for Health Services Research, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is founder of the Partnership for Prevention, a coalition of private-sector business and industry organizations, voluntary health organizations, and state and federal public health agencies based in Washington, D.C., that have joined together to work toward the elevation of disease prevention among the nation's health policy priorities.

Research Interest

GORDON DeFRIESE, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Policy and Administration and Director of the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. Some of his research interests are in the areas of health promotion and disease prevention, medical sociology, primary health care, rural health care, cost-benefit analysis, and cost-effectiveness. He is a member of the Global Advisory Group on Health Systems Research of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, past president of the Association for Health Services Research and the Foundation for Health Services Research, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is founder of the Partnership for Prevention, a coalition of private-sector business and industry organizations, voluntary health organizations, and state and federal public health agencies based in Washington, D.C., that have joined together to work toward the elevation of disease prevention among the nation's health policy priorities.