Lawsuit Settlement Restores Public Health Data: Key Facts and Resources
In September 2025, AcademyHealth and its partners secured a major legal victory restoring federal health data removed earlier this year. This fact sheet summarizes the case background, settlement terms, and the implications for researchers, clinicians, and communities.
Protecting the Science That Improves Health Care for All Americans
A recent lawsuit shines a light on a critical threat to the nation’s ability to improve health care. Due to the incapacitation of AHRQ’s research grantmaking, patients, clinicians, and health systems will lose access to innovative research that’s needed to improve care and reduce costs.
Health Datapalooza Highlights the Value of Cross-Sector Collaboration
This year, Health Datapalooza moves forward without federal officials on the main stage. AcademyHealth looks at what it means for the event and why the mission to connect innovators and advance health care remains as vital as ever.
AHRQ’s Grant Function is Collapsing Because of Impoundments, Impeding Efforts to Make America Healthy
Critical health services research funding is slowing to a halt, threatening vital innovations that improve care nationwide. New data shows the agency is unable to fulfill its mandate.
Learning Communities Can Help Us Survive and Thrive
Navigating the unprecedented change and uncertainty in today’s health care landscape requires us to carefully design the best next steps for a path forward. At UPMC, we believe that a learning community approach will not only help health care stakeholders weather current challenges but also build a stronger and more sustainable stakeholder-driven research infrastructure.
The Best of Both Worlds: Academia and Entrepreneurship in Health Information Technologies, a Fireside Chat with Founders and Trailblazers
As the intersection of health care and technology continues to expand, the role of health information technologies (HIT) is ever more critical. The Health Information Technology Interest Group spoke on a panel on the intersection between HIT and innovation and offer practical challenges of implementing cutting-edge solutions in real-world health care settings.
New Stanford Social Innovation Review Article Highlights Strategies for Funders to Embed Equity in Grantmaking
A new Stanford Social Innovation Review article describes lessons learned from the Community Research for Health Equity program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and managed by AcademyHealth, and highlights strategies for funders to embrace equitable research grantmaking approaches to better support community-led research initiatives.
Policy Brief: Doula Benefit Implementation in 6 State Medicaid Programs
This policy brief by Emma Mairson from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and AcademyHealth’s Project DREAM describes six state efforts to create a doula benefit in Medicaid.
Harnessing Discrete Choice Experiments to Identify Abortion Patients' Care Preferences
In the second of two blog posts, Senior Scholar Dr. Tiffany Green explores a person-centered approach to abortion care through the lens of discrete choice experiments, a method that brings patients’ relative preferences to the forefront.