AcademyHealth's New Tracker Reveals Impact of AHRQ Grant Cancellations
AcademyHealth’s new resource offers a clear picture of the collective impact of dismantling the only federal agency focused on health services research.
AHRQ Is Being Dismantled. The Consequences Will Reach Every Corner of Health Care
For decades, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has funded research that helps make health care safer, more effective, and more affordable. Now, after a year of staffing cuts, funding delays, and unprecedented disruption, the agency’s ability to carry out that mission is rapidly unraveling.
AHRQ Has Begun Canceling Research Grants. Here's What We Know.
Researchers across the country are receiving notices that AHRQ is ending funding for ongoing projects. In the latest Situation Report, AcademyHealth examines what we know so far, why it matters, and how these cancellations could affect the future of health services research.
AcademyHealth Calls for Withdrawal of Proposed OMB Rule on Federal Research Grants
Today, AcademyHealth submitted formal comments calling for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed OMB rule that would fundamentally change how the federal government awards and manages grants.
The Federal Rule That Would Dismantle America's Research Infrastructure
The evidence infrastructure that policymakers, clinicians, and patients depend on took decades to build. A proposed OMB rule, open for public comment until July 13, would dismantle it and call it accountability.
AcademyHealth Statement on Reports That USPSTF Leadership Has Been Removed
In an unprecedented move raising urgent concerns about the future of preventive care in the United States, the leadership of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has been removed, threatening the independent, evidence-based process that ensures millions of Americans can access life-saving screenings and services at no cost.
Read on Washington’s April 2026 Advocacy Update
This month’s "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on congressional appropriations, the USPSTF possibly thawing, vaccine studies being pulled from CDC, and more.
AcademyHealth Sounds the Alarm to Congress: AHRQ “Funded but Frozen”
Despite having a $345 million budget, the nation’s only agency dedicated to improving how health care actually works has effectively stopped functioning. In new testimony to Congress, AcademyHealth President and CEO Aaron Carroll warns that the crisis at AHRQ is already shutting down research, stalling patient safety improvements, and putting future progress at risk.
Read on Washington’s March 2026 Advocacy Update
This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the USPSTF’s meetings being blocked, leadership vacancies at HHS, movement on insulin price caps, and more.
Read on Washington’s February 2026 Advocacy Update
This month’s “Read on Washington”, available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on leadership shakeups at HHS, court action on the PHIG, upcoming nomination hearing for the Surgeon General, and more.