Rigorous, Relevant Research
Established in 2009 at the University of Southern California through a generous gift from Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer, the Schaeffer Center develops rigorously researched solutions, with a focus on fostering better pharmaceutical policy and regulation, improving the functioning of healthcare markets, increasing value in healthcare delivery and, ultimately, improving health. With an unparalleled data-resource infrastructure and collaborations spanning the globe, the Center serves as a hub for health economics research and a training ground for new generations of experts.
Our Impact
Xavier Becerra, then California’s Attorney General, speaks at a Schaeffer Center event on universal coverage.
Improving our healthcare system requires creative approaches, robust research and interdisciplinary expertise–areas in which the Schaeffer Center excels. Our research helps drive the agenda in Washington, D.C., and at the state and local level. Senior officials from both sides of the aisle–including presidents, key agency leaders and lawmakers–turn to our center for innovative, nonpartisan solutions to inform their decision-making. Our scholars regularly meet with policymakers and their staffs and provide expert testimony to congressional committees and working groups.
The Schaeffer Center is renowned as one of the world’s leading health policy research institutions and consistently ranks among the top five in academic citations. It has been awarded 112 federally funded projects and hosts four NIH-funded centers.
Our Partners
The Schaeffer Center is a partnership of USC’s Price School of Public Policy and Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Our scholars also collaborate with faculty from across the university–including the Keck School of Medicine, the Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology—and researchers from other leading institutions around the world.
USC Mann
One of the top pharmacy schools nationwide and the highest-ranked private school, the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences continues its century-old reputation for innovative programming, practice and collaboration.
USC Price
Since 1929, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy has defined excellence and innovation in public affairs education. Ranked third nationwide among 275 schools of public affairs, the Price School’s mission is to improve the quality of life for people and their communities, here and abroad.