Project ACCELERATE (Advancing Care Coordination through Evidence; Leveraging Existing Relationships Around Transforming PracticE)
With a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Eugene Washington Engagement Award, the Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute will bring together stakeholders to distill the latest PCORI-supported findings and identify strategies for dissemination to improve care coordination for children with special health care needs.
Project DREAM (Doula Research for Equitable Advances in Medicaid Pregnancy Health)
With funding support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute and the University of Pittsburgh are bringing together six Medicaid programs, their university research partners, nine doula programs, and Medicaid enrollees to leverage an innovative distributed research network to advance racial equity in severe maternal morbidity.
Public Health Systems Research
AcademyHealth’s public and population health portfolio offers training, scholarships and resources for researchers, facilitates connections with policymakers, and stimulates discussions around the challenges and opportunities faced by the evolving public health system – from organization and financing to delivery and impact.
Reducing Variation in Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Medicaid
With funding support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute and the University of Pittsburgh will leverage 11 university research partnerships of the Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN) to examine the role of place, providers, plans, and policies in driving racial and ethnic inequities in access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD).
Registry of Patient Registries
Patient registries offer significant opportunities for conducting clinical research.
Research Community on the Equity Impacts of Dobbs
This research community focused on the broad health equity impacts of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on the U.S. health care system and is supported by a collaboration between AcademyHealth and the Commonwealth Fund.
Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant program, managed by AcademyHealth, funds rigorous, empirical studies that evaluate or predict the potential effects of policies or policy changes intended to transform health and health care systems.
Research Insights
The aim of public and private funders of health services research is not only to support studies on the health care system and health care services, but also to disseminate results to policymakers.
Research on Pre-Hospital Diagnostic Delay
In partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, AcademyHealth supports the funding of research addressing pre-hospital diagnostic delays related to cancer, sepsis, and acute cardiovascular events.