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Center for Mississippi Health Policy Research to Inform Mississippi Health Policy About us In 2005 The Center for Mississippi Health Policy was established as a 501c3 nonprofit organization. The Center is an independent nonpartisan organization that gives priority to the application of research to relevant health policy issues versus the development of original research. Its primary mission is to act as a catalyst for health policy debate and to provide research to inform Mississippi health policy. Over the past 18 years the Center has provided information to policymakers key stakeholders medical students and other policyminded Mississippians to promote informed decisionmaking medical literacy and economically sound healthcare policies.