Outlining actionable strategies and helpful resources, this Guide can be used independently or in tandem with the Interactive Tool to Reduce Racial Bias in Big Data Studies to help users mitigate the risk of perpetuating racial bias through their research.
A new Health Affairs blog highlights AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute’s engagement with state-university partnerships comprised of Medicaid policymakers and researchers to develop a post-COVID Medicaid research agenda and toolkit to help measure the impact of Post-COVID Condition (PCC) on Medicaid-enrolled populations.
The United States has a maternal health crisis that disproportionately impacts patients in rural areas. Policymakers can address these disparities by enabling better access to care and supporting workforce development in rural communities.
Building on her remarks at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, Dr. Nancy López reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision making four recommendations to advance equity in higher education.
Lisa Simpson, AcademyHealth President and CEO, opened the 2023 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting with the following remarks, encouraging attendees to be guided by three core passions in their work to achieve impact and drive change.
The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision has much to say about the integrity of federal race/ethnicity data and the future of relying on such data in disparities research and, ultimately, civil rights enforcement.
AcademyHealth board member Atul Grover reflects on the recent Supreme Court decision that colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration in the admissions process, and the implications this has for medical school administrations and the health care workforce overall.
AcademyHealth Senior Scholar Jodyn Platt, AcademyHealth Vice President Elizabeth Cope and colleagues highlight the need for anti-racist expertise in informatics and proposes the use of the Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) as a powerful framework to tackle racism in digital forms.
Top health data experts held an exclusive conversation with AcademyHealth's organizational members on the status, challenges, and opportunities for stakeholder engagement with the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempt to make health data more equitable.
Through a range of activities, AcademyHealth seeks to advance data equity, support data learning networks, and expand data access. We are also announcing a new call for proposals from Health Data for Action, a signature research program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.