The Center for Health and Public Policy Studies
conducts research and policy analysis on current issues in health policy and politics that affect California and the nation.
The Center conducts research that provides data and analyses that support public policies to develop an affordable, high-quality health care system and to promote health and prevent disease,
with particular expertise in tobacco control and
health-care associated infections.
In this work, the Center collaborates with government, industry, foundations, and academic, institutions. CHPPS is part of the University of California, Berkeley,  School of Public Health