Public and population health evidence helps us understand how we deliver and integrate services that affect the health of communities, and how we promote healthy communities.
AcademyHealth’s Scaling Cancer Biomarker Testing Coalition announces the Compendium of Cancer Biomarker Initiatives, a resource centralizing the work happening in the biomarker testing landscape to support alignment, partnership, and coordination.
AcademyHealth's Scaling Cancer Biomarker Testing Coalition’s Compendium of Cancer Biomarker Initiatives is designed to provide easy access to a compilation of the current work happening in the biomarker testing landscape.
Adverse maternal and infant health outcomes, such as deaths related to pregnancy, preterm births, and low birthweight births, continue to disproportionately impact Black, American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), and Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander (NHPI) birthing people, leaving many in search of additional support. Colleagues from AcademyHealth’s Project DREAM break down what doula care is, how it can offer additional support, and how birthing people can access doula care in their communities.
With the ACA premium tax credits expiring, some policymakers are proposing broadening access to health savings accounts (HSAs) as a fix-all to consumers’ health care affordability concerns, despite evidence to the contrary.
In a recent conversation on the Analyzing Healthcare podcast AcademyHealth President and CEO Aaron Carroll offered a candid look at the challenges and opportunities facing the U.S. health system today. Carroll emphasized that today’s health care debate requires more than simple narratives. It requires evidence and leadership committed to long‑term solutions.
This reflection connects the quiet work of public health infrastructure, trust, and logistics to a broader question health services research grapples with every day: how shared institutions still create belonging in a fractured world.
The maternal health crisis in the U.S. continues to impact birthing people throughout the country, particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, and/or people of color. Colleagues from AcademyHealth’s Project DREAM outline how medical providers can collaborate with doulas in their communities to improve birth outcomes.
AcademyHealth will administer a communications and policy capacity building program for Humana Foundation research grantee partners to equip and empower researchers to leverage their research insights for real public health or health care policy and practice change.
As the year-long Thriving in School project draws to a close, this blog post reflects on the project’s accomplishments to inform research, policy, and practice.
AcademyHealth CEO Aaron Carroll writes in the New York Times about the rescheduling of marijuana out of the most restrictive drug category. The essay highlights how we can learn and adapt in the face of complex policy challenges.