Building Healthy Communities

In honor of November as National Homeless Youth Awareness month, this blog explores youth homelessness and mental health, funding to address youth homelessness and next steps to further address this issue.

As more states focus on addressing enrollee's social needs, North Carolina's Pilots project provides an excellent opportunity to evaluate the implementation of 29 evidence-based services. This paper provides timely and practical findings and recommendations from the planning, capacity building, and early implementation of the program.

AcademyHealth organizational member Aptive Resources partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs to better address Veteran suicide through improved data collection, working with subject matter experts, and identifying policy gaps.

With the end of the federal Public Health Emergency, scrutiny at the border, and exciting news for Dreamers, much is changing for foreign-born U.S. residents

The need for more robust data on immigrant subpopulations and their health leaves many health services research questions unanswered as this population grows.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded four community-engaged research grants to support analyses about the design, implementation, and impact of local, state, or national policies on the affordability of high-quality, equitable care.

AcademyHealth presents research nominated as the best abstract for each theme from the 2023 Call for Abstracts, exploring topics related to patient-centered research, mental health and substance use, women’s health, and more.

AcademyHealth’s and the ABIM Foundation’s collaboration with Scholars in Residence supports research on building public trust in health systems by addressing exploitative behavior and increasing patient and provider trust through education and human connection.