Senate Labor HHS Funding Bill Devastates Health Services Research in a Pandemic
AcademyHealth is deeply disappointed by the counterproductive and devastating 24 percent cut to AHRQ in the Senate’s FY21 Labor-HHS bill.
Four Tips to Increase Audience Engagement When Presenting Virtually
As we all contend with Zoom fatigue and distracted audiences dealing with a range of work-from-home interruptions, AcademyHealth’s Director of Communications and Public Relations Lauren Adams shares tips for compelling virtual presentations that will keep your audience engaged.
Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic requires an unprecedented communal effort. The same is true for climate change.
Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic both have profound negative impacts on our health, wellbeing, and way of life, and exacerbate health inequities. Both threats also call for collaboration on an unprecedented scale and speed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.