Faculty

Office

302 Towerview Rd., 112 Rubenstein Hall

Durham, NC 27708

Box 90253, 112 Rubenstein Hall

Durham, NC 27708-0253

Phone

(919) 613-9357

Email

don.taylor@duke.edu

Recent Courses

PUBPOL 825: Topics in Health Policy

HLTHMGMT 716: Management of Health Systems and Policy

PUBPOL 302D: Policy Choice as Value Conflict

IDS 704: Data Science Ethics

Donald H. Taylor

Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy

Director of the Social Science Research Institute

Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Associate Professor in the School of Nursing

Member of the Duke Clinical Research Institute

Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society

Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute

Areas of Expertise

Health Policy--United States
Health Care Reform
Health Economics
Health Insurance
Hospice Care
Long-term care
Medical Care--Access
Older people--care
Smoking-Law and legislation-United States

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995)

M.P.P., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1992)

B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1990)

Reflections on caring for an aging parent (Don Taylor)

NPR: Amazon, JPMorgan Chase And Berkshire Hathaway Pursue The Health Care 'Unicorn'

Podcast episode featuring Don Taylor's work:

In The News

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Awards and Honors

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Bio

Representative Publications

Use of Hospital Referral Regions in Evaluating End-of-Life Care. Journal of Palliative Medicine (01/2020)

Trends in Place of Death for Individuals With Cardiovascular Disease in the United States. J Am Coll Cardiol (10/2019)

Trends and Factors Associated with Place of Death for Individuals with Dementia in the United States. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (10/2019)

Paying for Palliative Care in Medicare: Evidence From the Four Seasons/Duke CMMI Demonstration. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (10/2019)

African Americans With Advanced Heart Failure Are More Likely to Die in a Health Care Facility Than at Home or in Hospice: An Analysis From the PAL-HF Trial. Journal of Cardiac Failure (08/2019)

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Selected Grants

Replication in other states and evaluation (Principal Investigator)

Which palliative care quality measures improve patient-centered outcomes? (Mentor)

The North Carolina Leadership Forum, John William Pope Foundation (Principal Investigator)

Timely Guidance on Payment Reforms, Benefit Designs, and Value Initiatives (Principal Investigator)

Opioid Utilization and Treatment in North Carolina (Co Investigator)

Randomized Control Trial of FCT (Analyst)

Implementing Best Practice in Palliative Care (Co Investigator)

Supporting Medicaid Reform in North Carolina (Advisor)

Increasing Patient and System Value with Community Based Palliative Care (Principal Investigator)