Programs

AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute, as the Administrative Coordinating Center for the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network, supports the University of Pittsburgh and 11 additional state-university research teams to develop opioid use disorder (OUD) quality measures that can be constructed at the provider level, incorporate patient experience, and center health equity.

With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute and ChangeLab Solutions explored approaches to improving care and delivery of PrEP medication and clinical care services to the Medicaid population.

In partnership with Adolescents and Children Together for Health, AcademyHealth leads this project on policy priorities to enhance adolescent health and wellbeing as part of a larger initiative at Well Being Trust to advance the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation.

Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AcademyHealth supports three national change leadership programs though policy and communications training.

The Paradigm Project is a concerted, collaborative effort to increase the relevance, timeliness, quality, and impact of health services research (HSR).

In partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago (NORC), AcademyHealth supports this PCORI-funded project to build the capacity and foster the sustainability of patient and/or community-led organizations whose primary purpose is to enable research that is a priority to their communities.

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AcademyHealth led the Payment Reform for Population Health initiative to examine the opportunities through which the payment system can support population health.

Patient and consumer engagement in health and health care is increasingly seen as a vital to the research process, and to improving the performance of the health care system. Since 2012, AcademyHealth has worked with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute on a variety of initiatives.