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.
A year later after the Dobbs decision, members of the Women and Gender Health Interest Group Advisory Committee reflect on results of a survey offering recommendations for how organizations can respond.
Top health data experts held an exclusive conversation with AcademyHealth's organizational members on the status, challenges, and opportunities for stakeholder engagement with the Biden-Harris Administration’s attempt to make health data more equitable.
This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the FY24 appropriations process, rulings on the USPSTF, new CMS estimates on national health spending, and more.
This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the FY24 appropriations process, rulings on the USPSTF, congressional work on drug pricing, and more.
This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the debt limit, bipartisan movement on drug pricing, court rulings on preventative care coverage, and more.
This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the FY24 appropriations process, new NCHS data on maternal mortality, ARPA-H, and more.
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.