AcademyHealth Blog

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.

Dazon Dixon Diallo, founder and President of SisterLove, Inc. (SLI) and Health Datapalooza planning committee member, amplifies unheard voices and champion equitable, intersectional health data gathering.

An AcademyHealth member’s perspective on her most memorable policy-oriented 2024 Annual Research Meeting sessions.

AcademyHealth President and CEO Aaron Carroll was recently featured on two podcasts in which he expanded upon critical public health challenges and how effective communication and involving those with lived experience a seat at the table leads to better health outcomes for all.

More than twenty new projects will use access to timely, relevant data to inform policies ranging from treatment of chronic and complex conditions, payment for health services, reproductive health, access to care and treatment, and more.