Public & Population Health

Blog Post

New Initiative Aims to Build a Model Open COVID-19 Patient Data Registry Network

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Data for Action program, managed by AcademyHealth, is supporting a collaboration between Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), CareJourney, and a network of health systems to increase the availability of standardized, actionable information on COVID-19 impact and progression.

Posted Apr 10, 2020 By Niall Brennan, M.P.P.

Topics Using Health Data Data Sharing Public & Population Health

Blog Post

Leveraging Partnerships across State Agencies Can Vastly Improve Critical Immunization Efforts

State Medicaid, public health and education partnerships offer some of the most innovative and effective responses to increasing immunization rates.

Posted Mar 23, 2020 By Susan Kennedy, M.P.P., M.S.W., Stephanie Wasserman, M.S.P.H.

Topics Public & Population Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid

Blog Post

Medicaid’s Unique Role in Combating the Coronavirus

In a JAMA commentary published today, three Medicaid Medical Directors from AcademyHealth’s Medicaid Medical Directors Network examine the flexibility Medicaid has to expand public health capabilities in the face of a pandemic.

Posted Mar 19, 2020 By Susan Kennedy, M.P.P., M.S.W., Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H.

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Public & Population Health Access to Care

Blog Post

Adapting, Learning and Caring During a Public Health Crisis

AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson reflects on the field’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and urges continued learning and caring as we face this public health crisis together.

Posted Mar 17, 2020 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Public & Population Health Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

How States Can Leverage School Nurses to Improve Children’s Immunization Rates

Research shows that school nurses play an important role in combating declining immunization rates amongst children.

Posted Feb 19, 2020 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H., Allison Squires, FAAN, Ph.D., RN

Topics Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health

Blog Post

How Clinicians, Patients, and Policymakers can Reduce Harmful Overmedication in Older Americans

Shannon Brownlee and Judith Garber of AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, Lown Institute, highlight key recommendations to eliminate medication overload in older adults.

Posted Jan 28, 2020 By Shannon Brownlee, MSc, Judith Garber

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health

Blog Post

Embedded Pragmatic Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: Difficult to Define and Implement, but Desperately Needed

Posted Jan 27, 2020 By Jill Harrison, Ph.D.

Topics Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health

Publication

Moving Policy Upstream to Advance Adolescent Flourishing Rapid Evidence Review: Appendices

These appendices for a rapid evidence review on interventions for teen wellbeing include key definitions, methods, narrative summary of findings, findings by outcome, evidence tables, and a list of excluded reviews.

Posted Dec 10, 2019

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Publication

Rapid Evidence Review Examines Interventions Aimed at Improving Teen Wellbeing

Including 34 systematic reviews and two large-scale interventions, this rapid evidence review makes recommendations for intervention and research design as well as highlights opportunities to more broadly focus interventions on social determinants of health.

Posted Dec 10, 2019

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Past Event

Webinar: 2019 Child Health Services Research IG Abstract Session

This webinar will be a research abstract presentation panel, providing a forum for child health services researchers to share their work with peers.

Date & Time November 19, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health