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AcademyHealth is pleased to welcome Breana Turner, Ph.D., M.P.H., as a 2026 Civic Science Fellow. Through the fellowship, Breana will build an Evidence Creator Pipeline that connects health policy evidence with trusted social media creators and community communicators, helping research reach broader audiences and civic conversations.
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Modernizing Federal Health Evidence: A Blueprint examines the federal evidence enterprise across agencies and offers more than 70 recommendations for agencies, the administration, and Congress.
Posted Oct 8, 2026
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AcademyHealth applauds GAO investigation, which validates the intentional collapse of AHRQ grantmaking that AcademyHealth has documented over the last 18 months.
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In the latest story from our Evidence Effect series, Dr. Maria Rodriguez from the Oregon Health & Science University talks about the impact of knowing who the over-the-counter pill is reaching.
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AcademyHealth’s Scaling Cancer Biomarker Testing Coalition announces the Compendium of Cancer Biomarker Initiatives, a resource centralizing the work happening in the biomarker testing landscape to support alignment, partnership, and coordination.
Posted Oct 5, 2026
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In Work Interrupted: Voices from the Field, Siham Ahmed reflects on the abrupt termination of her Payne Fellowship and the uncertainty that followed. Just as she was beginning to build the future she had envisioned, a single email changed everything, . Her story is a reminder that while opportunities may be interrupted, purpose and commitment to public service can endure.
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While health services researchers have embraced stakeholder engagement as essential to improving care quality, the timing and authenticity of that engagement determine whether we produce real solutions. True partnership means bringing those with lived experience in before defining the problem, not after designing the intervention.
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As the fiscal year comes to a close, senators from both parties are asking what happened to AHRQ’s funding. After 150 research grants were canceled this summer, questions remain, including whether the money Congress appropriated is funding health services research.
Posted Sep 22, 2026
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The return of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is welcome news. After more than 17 months without a meeting, the nation’s leading preventive care panel once again has new members and can begin addressing a growing backlog of recommendations. But restoring the Task Force's membership is only the first step.
Posted Sep 17, 2026
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On July 15, 2026, researchers across the country began receiving official notices that AHRQ was terminating ongoing grants, many of which had already gone months without funding. The stories below document what these cancellations mean for researchers, patients, health systems, and communities that depend on health services research.