TIPS Program Resources

Reference guide

Your policy toolkit for completing the TIPS program

TIPS fellows can consult this list of resources to help complete assignments, prepare for meetings and craft their policy project reports.

These resources will be referenced throughout the TIPS course. The links are organized thematically to improve the ease of browsing (adapted from a list created by the editors of Health Affairs).

Essential Health Policy Resources

Federal government

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Bureau of Health Workforce
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Census Bureau
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Congress.gov (Library of Congress legislative information)
Congressional Budget Office
Department of Health and Human Services
FirstGov (a comprehensive portal to government sites)
Food and Drug Administration
Government Accountability Office
Health Resources and Services Administration
House of Representatives
How Congress Works-AACOM
Library of Congress
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC)
National Center for Health Statistics
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine (including Medline, PubMed Central)
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Health Affairs (searches may be extended to include PubMed)
PubMed
Senate
U.S. Government Printing Office (for Federal Register and other government reports)
U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention
White House

State and local government

Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
National Association of State Budget Officers
National Academy for State Health Policy
National Association of County and City Health Officials
National Association of Medicaid Directors
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Governors Association
State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation)
Stateline.org (Pew Center on the States)

International affairs and government

Advocacy, education and research organizations

AcademyHealth
Alliance for Health Policy
American Enterprise Institute
The Brookings Institution
Cato Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center for Studying Health System Change
ED to MED (AACOM’s grassroots advocacy campaign on graduate student debt)
Employee Benefit Research Institute
Galen Institute
The Heritage Foundation
Mathematica Policy Research
National Academy of Social Insurance
National Institute for Health Care Management
RAND
RAND Compare
Urban Institute

Associations

Foundations