The Center for Healthcare Policy and Research at UC Davis invites you to participate in a stakeholder meeting for the study “Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Inform Breast Cancer Screening Policy,” funded through the California Breast Cancer Research Program.

The goal of this project is to engage breast cancer policymakers, advocates, and researchers in an effective, collaborative effort to identify key breast cancer health policy issues relevant to underserved women in California. The research team recently developed a cost-effectiveness model specifically tailored to the California Cancer Detection Program: Every Woman Counts (EWC), a California safety net program providing breast cancer screening and diagnostic services to uninsured and underinsured women. We propose to adapt this cost-effectiveness model to address key policy issues and to create a prototype user-friendly interface that will allow policymakers, advocates, and interested members of the community to use the model to obtain direct feedback on the projected costs and outcomes of policy alternatives they are considering.

By participating in this stakeholder meeting, you will help to identify priority policy questions related to breast cancer screening for underserved women in California and be introduced to the prototype cost-effectiveness policy model. The policy priorities identified will inform the development of this policy model. The stakeholder meeting will take place on December 5, 2011 from 12:30-3:30 pm at the UC Center Sacramento, which is located at 1130 K Street, Suite LL 22, downtown Sacramento.

 Be sure to RSVP as lunch will be served.