Reports

Report of the General Board on the re-establishment of a RAND Professorship of Health Services Research

The General Board beg leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The General Board recommend the re-establishment of a RAND Professorship of Health Services Research as set out in paragraph 2 below. The funding arrangements were scrutinized by the Chair of the Resource Management Committee on 16 December 2015.

2. The Board have accepted an academic case from the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine for the re‑establishment of a RAND Professorship of Health Services Research in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. The full cost of the Professorship will be shared between RAND Europe and the School of Clinical Medicine from within its recurrent Chest Allocation. The RAND Professor of Health Services Research will also be appointed Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research. Should the funding from RAND Europe lapse, the School of Clinical Medicine has agreed to assume the full cost of the Professorship, the title of which would be amended to the Professorship of Health Services Research.

3. The General Board recommend:

I. That a RAND Professorship of Health Services Research be re-established for a single tenure in the University, from 1 April 2016, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1 and assigned to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

13 January 2016	L. K. Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor	Abigail Fowden	Helen Thompson
	Chad Allen	A. L. Greer	Graham Virgo
	Philip Allmendinger	Martin Millett	Chris Young
	Robert Cashman	Rachael Padman
	Anne Davis	Richard Prager