One way AcademyHealth works to improve both the supply and quality of health services research is by assessing the skills and composition of the HSR workforce, and building programs that respond to emerging needs. This section includes evidence on the makeup of the HSR workforce as well as programs to improve and support its diversity and relevance.
Robin Newhouse, immediate past chair of the AcademyHealth Board and former chair of AcademyHealth’s Education Council, highlights networking and training programs at Indiana University for Ph.D. pre- and post-doctoral nurses.
AcademyHealth President and CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson offers her thoughts on the value of spending time at events outside the typical health services research community.
AcademyHealth Education Council member Charlene Wong and colleagues outline three recommendations for expanding the workforce of clinicians who are also health services researchers.
AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson highlights October’s special issue of “HSR: Health Services Research,” an official journal of AcademyHealth, which focuses on the scope and characteristics of the health services research workforce.
Building on efforts to tailor health care decisions to the needs of individual patients, Sanofi is partnering with AcademyHealth to offer a fellowship supporting skills in the management and analysis of real world data.
Margo Edmunds, director of the AcademyHealth Center for Diversity, Inclusion and Minority Engagement in Health Services and Policy Research, highlights sessions on disparities and health equity at next week’s Annual Research Meeting during which attendees will have the chance to see the field from different perspectives.
This 2015-2017 Progress Report details how AcademyHealth worked with our members, partners, and funders to make both health care and research better all with the aim of making health and health care better for everybody.
