New Health Affairs Blog Post Serves as an Open Letter To ARPA-H Designers
AcademyHealth Board Member Lucia Savage and CEO Lisa Simpson offer five guiding principles from health services research on ARPA-H’s design.
New research finds a connection between police brutality and unmet needs for mental health care.
Previous evidence indicates that people exposed to police brutality are more likely to face mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder, that Black people and people of color are more likely to experience police brutality, and, that these same populations are more likely to have unmet needs for mental health care. This plain language summary highlights new research from Alang et al. that connects these themes and demonstrates for the first time that exposure to police brutality is itself associated with unmet mental health needs.
Using Syndemics and Intersectionality to Explain the Disproportionate COVID-19 Mortality Among Black Men
In this commentary, researchers use syndemics to explain why Black men in the United States are dying disproportionately from COVID-19 and to guide a framework for efforts to mitigate their risk of dying from COVID-19.
Variability in Primary Care Physician Attitudes Toward Medicaid Work Requirement Exemption Requests Made by Patients With Depression
It is medically, ethically, and legally imperative that measures aimed at protecting vulnerable patients are not undermined by the burdensomeness of exemption procedures, or by physicians’ political or personal views.
Experts in Child Health Services Research Reflect on 2020 and Look Ahead to 2021
Members of AcademyHealth’s Child Health Services Research Interest Group Advisory Committee reflect on five key areas of advancement of Child HSR during 2020, and consider the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on children.
Putting Cancer Care Delivery on the Map: Rural Capacity in the NCI Community Oncology Research Program
Shellie Ellis, 2019-20 NCI/AcademyHealth Visiting Scholar, describes rural cancer care providers’ participation in cancer care delivery research.
As the Threat of COVID-19 Eventually Recedes, Incentives for New Vaccine Development Are Needed
Summarizing an expert discussion at an August 2020 virtual meeting, this brief examines the COVID-19 vaccine development experience and reviews existing research on vaccine development, manufacturing, and distribution, including financing mechanisms to help ensure its accessibility, as well as policies to promote equity.
State Snapshots Identify Immunization Successes
AcademyHealth’s CDC-funded community of practice created these state snapshots to provide an overview of the project and successes they achieved to increase immunization rates among pregnant women and children on Medicaid.
Field Guide Offers Promising Insights for Implementation and Evaluation of Section 1115 Medicaid Demonstrations
AcademyHealth’s Medicaid Demonstration Evaluation Learning Collaborative fostered shared learning among state agency and research partners on common themes and challenges in the implementation and evaluation of Section 1115 demonstrations. This resulting field guide reveals the real-world lessons in evaluation design and measurement.
Researchers Examine Trust and the Role of Technology in Health Care
In this second post in a series on building trust and mutual respect in health care, Maura Dugan highlights insights from researchers examining the relationship between technology and trust.