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Three Strategies to Rebuild Our Fractured Health System for Equity

In the second of a two-part series, AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson highlights three strategies aimed at addressing the wide variation in the degree of disruption, disproportionate impact, and decision-making capacity across states and localities.

Posted Oct 15, 2020 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics HSR Workforce Development Delivering Better Care Health Equity

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Fixing our Fractured and Failed Health System

In the first of a two-part series, AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson reflects on four challenges that need immediate attention to repair the fractured and failed health system.

Posted Oct 14, 2020 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics HSR Workforce Development Delivering Better Care Health Equity

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Improving Medicaid Immunization Rates through Stakeholder Collaboration, Data Infrastructure, and Quality Measures

AcademyHealth received new funding from the CDC to extend our current immunization community of practice. As the original community of practice ends, we highlight a few key successes from our participating states.

Posted Oct 9, 2020 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H.

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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Expert Meeting Highlights Key Challenges in COVID-19 Vaccine Development

A recent discussion, focused on ensuring sufficient investment and interest in vaccine development for the next infectious threat, brought to light the incredible complexity involved in developing, manufacturing and distributing a vaccine on a massive scale in an equitable way.

Posted Oct 8, 2020 By Megan Collado, M.P.H.

Topics Public & Population Health Health Equity

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New Funding Awarded to Examine the Intersections of COVID-19 & Medicaid

The Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) recently awarded two Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award COVID-19 Enhancements to AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute to explore how Medicaid can examine the impact on beneficiaries and the program.

Posted Oct 6, 2020 By Caitlin Otter

Topics Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid Using Health Data Delivering Better Care

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The Importance of Gathering

AcademyHealth senior staff reflect on the purpose of conferences and meetings, how AcademyHealth is adapting to a virtual environment, and ask readers to complete a short survey.

Posted Oct 5, 2020 By Angélica Rodríguez, Amy Hammer, M.A., M.P.A., PMP

Topics HSR Workforce Development HSR Resources & Methods

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Policymakers Need Evidence, and the Health Policy Orientation has the Skills You Need

AcademyHealth Senior Manager for Government Affairs Josh Caplan explains how AcademyHealth’s Health Policy Orientation helps attendees maximize the impact of research in policymaking.

Posted Sep 21, 2020 By Josh Caplan, M.A., M.P.P.

Topics HSR Resources & Methods Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Advocacy

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Experts Discuss Child Health Care Transformation

AcademyHealth CEO Lisa Simpson asked Charlie Bruner, of the Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) Marks network, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, about its efforts to transform child health care in the United States. The following is the Q & A from that interaction.

Posted Sep 18, 2020 By Charles Bruner

Topics Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities

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Nursing Health Services Research: Developing an Agenda to Address the Nation’s Top Health Care Challenges in the 2020s

As the COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the critical role of nursing in health care delivery, members from the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) highlight key areas of focus to ensure nursing health services research is well-positioned to address the nation’s top health care challenges over the next decade.

Posted Aug 6, 2020 By Hilary Barnes, Ph.D., NP-C, FAANP, Hayley Germack, Ph.D., M.H.S., R.N. , Kathryn Connell, Ph.D., R.N., C.C.R.N., Peter I. Buerhaus Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, FAANP(h)

Topics Translation, Dissemination & Implementation Costs & Payments Delivering Better Care

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AcademyHealth Chair's Address: A Burning Platform for Change

On July 29, 2020, Dr. Elizabeth (Becky) Yano delivered the annual Chair's Address as part of the “Rockstars of HSR” session at the virtual 2020 Annual Research Meeting. The below text of her remarks has been edited for length.

Posted Aug 5, 2020 By Elizabeth M. Yano, Ph.D., MSPH

Topics HSR Workforce Development