Raising expectations for addressing urinary incontinence in primary care: Implementation Approaches
AHRQ’s EvidenceNOW: Managing Urinary Incontinence initiative contributes learning to the Implementation Science field.
Jaime Adler is a Senior Manager of Public and Population Health at AcademyHealth where her work focuses on integrating population health and health care delivery to improve health outcomes. Jaime is a population health expert with a human-centered approach to systems design and has committed her career to reimagining the health care system for historically marginalized people. She believes that in order to achieve health equity there must be a focus on health care quality. Jaime currently works on projects with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) related to patient-centered clinical decision support innovation and with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) related to increasing state capacity for Medicaid core set reporting. She brings specific experience in quality improvement, system transformation, cross-sector collaboration, policy, and qualitative research methods.
Jaime earned an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and an MS in Communications from Clark University in Worcester, M.A.. Prior to joining AcademyHealth, Jaime worked at the American Cancer Society partnering with local and state health care organizations and public health agencies to improve HPV vaccination and other cancer prevention efforts with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and CDC. She previously worked as a Policy Analyst at the University of California, Nutrition Policy Institute on the evaluation team for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) in California where she specialized in transforming the program funding model. She has also served as a consultant, including for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducting data analysis to inform public health policy; as an account manager for health behavior campaigns at a boutique social marketing firm; and as the communications director for a state senator.
Authored by Jaime Adler, M.S., M.P.H.
New Project Aims to Improve Care for Individuals Living with HIV
NASTAD (National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors), in partnership with AcademyHealth and the University of California San Francisco, are working to build state capacity to improve the collection and reporting of important HIV data through collaboration between Medicaid and HIV programs across 10 states.
Building Capacity to Improve HIV Viral Suppression Data in Medicaid
NASTAD (National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors), in partnership with AcademyHealth and the University of California San Francisco, are collaborating on a four-year Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant focused on building state capacity to report HIV viral suppression data through the HVL-AD measure as part of the annual Medicaid Adult Core Set.
Enhancing Systems of Care for Children with Medical Complexity (CMC) Coordinating Center
AcademyHealth, in partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital, FamilyVoices, the University of California San Francisco, Patient Advocate Foundation, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, is leading a Coordinating Center to support five Health Resources & Services Administration (HSRA)-funded demonstration sites to optimize the health and well-being for children with medical complexity and their families while also achieving health equity for these populations.