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.
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.
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.
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.
We Are the Light of Justice that Will Not Be Extinguished
Kealoha Fox outlines a 10-year effort that resulted in billions of dollars of government investment in programs that connect cultural values to social determinants of health in Hawai‘i. Dr. Fox presented this work at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Sharing Knowledge conference, organized in partnership with AcademyHealth.