AcademyHealth Blog

The evidence generated from health services research is crucial for guiding state and federal policy efforts to ameliorate and prevent the adverse health effects of the changing climate. Part 1 of this blog series provides an overview of health systems resiliency and the role of health services research in building a resilient health system.

In the final post of a three-part blog interview series, April Joy Damian, Ph.D., M.Sc., Vice President and Director of the Weitzman Institute and Senior Scholar at AcademyHealth sheds light on how Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are building trust with communities.

Dr. Leia Belt and Kamaria Kaalund offer takeaways from the 2024 Annual Research Meeting in Baltimore.

As we marked the sixty-one-year anniversary of the March on Washington yesterday August 28th—a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement—it’s an important time to reflect on the legacy of exclusionary practices and their impact on modern health care inequities. By understanding and addressing the history of sundown towns, we can more effectively reach and support historically oppressed and underserved communities.

Following South Asian Heritage Month, a health policy intern and policy analyst from the Weitzman Institute teamed up to explore the disproportionate heart disease burden carried by those with South Asian ancestry and offer policy and lifestyle recommendations.

This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, Medicare prescription drug negotiations, HRSA funding opportunities, and more.

A growing evidence base supports the value of incorporating the patient perspective into research studies and as part of routine care using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). The PROTEUS Consortium helps optimize the capture and communication of PROM data in research studies and clinical practice by providing free, publicly available, user-friendly tools and resources.

Reflecting on a networking session at the Annual Research Meeting, researchers studying the impacts of the Dobbs decision elevate challenges, successes, and opportunities to collaborate with others doing this work, such as through AcademyHealth’s new Research Community on the Equity Impacts of Dobbs.