The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
(ASPE) is the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research, evaluation, and economic analysis.
- Aging and Elderly
- Child Welfare
- Consumer Choice
- Data and Information Policy
- Data Sources and Statistics
- Disability
- Drugs, Medical Devices, and Pharmacy Services
- Early Childhood and School Readiness
- Employment
- Expenditures
- Family and Marriage Issues
- Food and Nutrition
- Health Care/Long-Term Care Financing
- Health Information Infrastructure
- Health Providers, Informal
- Health Resources
- Health Services, Formal
- Home and Community-Based Services
- Homelessness
- Immigration/Foreign-born
- Insurance
- International
- Long-Term Care
- Medicaid
- Medical Liability and Malpractice
- Medicare
- Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment
- Modeling and Simulation
- Poverty, Income, and Assets
- Prevention, Health Promotion, and Wellness
- Public Health
- Public Safety and Terrorism
- Quality of Services and Information
- Science and Technology
- Service Delivery
- State Initiatives and Programs
- Substance Abuse (Alcohol and Drug Abuse)
- Violence
- Welfare, Work, and Self-Sufficiency
- Youth/Teens/Adolescents