Advocacy is the act of educating others on a specific cause or issue. It allows constituents to make their voices heard on issues of importance, open the channels of communication with policymakers, and potentially influence opinions.
This month’s "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the Public Health Emergency designation, diversity at NSF, California’s attempt to make insulin accessible, and more.
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.
AcademyHealth’s advocacy efforts will focus on promoting research and science innovation, health systems improvement, resilience, capacity, and proactively reducing health disparities, including for racial and socio-economic factors.
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.
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.
Participants of AcademyHealth Health Policy Orientation heard from leading experts on how to communicate effectively with lawmakers for translating evidence into action.
This month’s "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the GAO study on maternal outcomes, new NIH programming on AI in research, Biden executive order on testing cheaper drug payment models, and more.
This month’s "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the appropriations process, CURES 2.0, impact of climate change on health systems, and more.
This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the recent CDC post-COVID-19 overhaul, CMS working with medically complex children with Medicaid services, the new National Secure Data Services, and more.