Grants

The goal of the study is to assess the barriers, hurdles, and facilitators to advancing and sustaining American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) students in undergraduate medical and nursing education programs.

The goal of this project is to provide insight into how state Medicaid managed care contracts may influence the roles of community health workers employed by managed care organizations.

The goal of this project is to provide insights into how different contracting approaches play out over different types of plans, health center network providers, and on-the-ground community conditions (i.e., COVID-19 pandemic and recession) and to help states build purchasing arrangements more attuned to the evolving conditions that patients and communities face.

The goal of this project is to inform Medi-Cal policy changes and improve care and delivery for advancements in child health equity.

The goal of this project is to generate insights about the administration and implementation of North Carolina’s “Healthy Opportunities Pilots” initiative to help inform policymakers in that state, as well as policymakers in other states seeking to transform Medicaid to address enrollees’ social needs.

The goal of this project is to provide foundational evidence for the development of best practice models of multisector collaboration that address unmet social needs and improve health outcomes for Medicaid enrollees.

The goal of this project is to help state Medicaid agencies understand how managed care organizations respond to contracting requirements regarding social determinants of health and health equity (SDOH-E), and to help inform federal policy to enhance funding for SDOH-E investments.

The goal of this project is to comparatively assess the social determinants of health (SDOH)-focused activities of managed care organizations (MCOs) and their impact in states with and without either a contractual mandate or incentives to align contractual requirements and payment mechanisms with such efforts.