AcademyHealth Blog

AcademyHealth Senior Director Megan Collado reflects on the culmination of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported program, Understanding and Supporting Anchor Businesses to Build a Culture of Health, managed by AcademyHealth, including what we’ve learned from the research and from key business and other stakeholders that were convened to better understand the impact of business’ place-based investments on health, well-being, and equity.

Dr. Kevin Frick reflects on how he has continued to promote a more inclusive, equitable culture in HSR through storytelling.

The second post in our Weitzman Institute blog series on conducting health equity research during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights challenges and lessons learned in building rapport and authentically engaging with patients in a virtual research environment.

The techniques, focus, and skills of health service researchers is key as federal programs and health systems identify and administer treatments for Long COVID. As Long COVID continues to disproportionately harm populations that are already suffering from health disparities, poorly designed or targeted dissemination efforts could worsen this health outcome gap.

This post is the first in the Health Equity Research Beyond COVID-19 Series, which highlights lessons learned when conducting research with marginalized and vulnerable communities during the pandemic, and implications for how to ensure the way in which we go about doing research is patient- and community-affirming.

This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the FY23 omnibus appropriations bill, ARPA-H's reauthorization, new recommendations from MedPAC, and more.

As we celebrate AcademyHealth’s 40th Anniversary this year, AcademyHealth President and CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson sat down with Dr. Elizabeth McGlynn to discuss leadership, contributions, and innovation in the field of health services research.

This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on FDA’s review of the infant formula crisis, a new HHS report on Long COVID, Medicaid responding to doula care, and more.

Watch the video for the personal story of Cynthia Warrick, a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion—and find out more about BioGradMatch, which matches students to biomedical and health sciences graduate programs. BioGradMatch is seeking additional graduate programs to participate.