Building Healthy Communities

AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation are collaborating on a two-year initiative, Advancing Trust: A Focus on Medical Debt, which aims to address the widespread implications of health system-based medical debt policies and practices while exploring solutions to this systemic issue.

In the fourth of a series of interviews with our Community Research for Health Equity grantees, AcademyHealth interviews Kristin Payestewa from Arizona State University to learn more about their project goals and findings during National Native American Heritage Month.

AcademyHealth, with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, awarded four grants to study and address diagnostic inequities and improve patient outcomes in behavioral health, cardiology, pediatrics, and oncology.

Led by AcademyHealth and funded by The Donaghue Foundation, this final report outlines a collaborative process and research priorities for achieving health care that is both high value and equitable.

Research in health services is essential for informing policy decisions to address and forestall the detrimental health consequences of climate change. Part 2 of this blog series identifies priority health services research areas for continued health system reform to address the climate crisis.

In this white paper, the Think Kids team summarizes the findings of their recently completed CRHE project, "When All Are Counted," which examined how West Virginia compiles and reports health surveillance data.

An AcademyHealth member’s perspective on her most memorable policy-oriented 2024 Annual Research Meeting sessions.

In the second of a three-part blog series, AcademyHealth interviews Thomas H. Lee, M.D., Internist and Cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Chief Medical Officer at Press Ganey about opportunities for enhancing trust in health care.

In this document, the Think Kids team shares preliminary findings from their recently completed CRHE project, “When All Are Counted,” which examined how West Virginia compiles and reports health surveillance data.

The recent Supreme Court decision allowing governments to ban sleeping outside, even when other options are unavailable, will likely have serious health and social repercussions for unhoused populations. We explore the criminalization of homelessness and its implications from the perspective of a federally qualified health center.