Programs

AcademyHealth manages the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Building Trust and Mutual Respect to Improve Health Care program, which awarded eight research studies in 2018 to examine how to build trust and mutual respect to meet vulnerable patients’ health care needs.

AcademyHealth is committed to promoting a culture of equitable and inclusive values, policies, and practices across the field of health services and policy research (HSR). This work is sponsored by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

From June 2015 to July 2017, the Community Health Peer Learning (CHP) Program built community capacity to advance progress toward population health improvements through the expanded capture, sharing, and use of electronic health data from diverse sectors.

A community partnership between HCSRN and AcademyHealth to discuss promising approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Phase I: Establishing Priorities

AcademyHealth is home to the Electronic Data Methods (EDM) Forum, a community of more than 4,000 stakeholders, 400 resources and more than 35 collaborative projects all aimed at improving the use of health data to transform health care.

AcademyHealth manages the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Engaging Businesses for Health project, which awarded eight research studies in 2017 to build the evidence base for how private-sector investment can help build a Culture of Health—promoting greater well-being and health equity for all.

AcademyHealth was awarded a PCORI Convening Award that will bring the Medicaid Medical Directors Network together to identify research and translation gaps that can help promote dissemination and implementation uptake.

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.