Leveraging Partnerships across State Agencies Can Vastly Improve Critical Immunization Efforts
State Medicaid, public health and education partnerships offer some of the most innovative and effective responses to increasing immunization rates.
Medicaid’s Unique Role in Combating the Coronavirus
In a JAMA commentary published today, three Medicaid Medical Directors from AcademyHealth’s Medicaid Medical Directors Network examine the flexibility Medicaid has to expand public health capabilities in the face of a pandemic.
Adapting, Learning and Caring During a Public Health Crisis
AcademyHealth President and CEO Lisa Simpson reflects on the field’s response to the coronavirus outbreak and urges continued learning and caring as we face this public health crisis together.
How States Can Leverage School Nurses to Improve Children’s Immunization Rates
Research shows that school nurses play an important role in combating declining immunization rates amongst children.
How Clinicians, Patients, and Policymakers can Reduce Harmful Overmedication in Older Americans
Shannon Brownlee and Judith Garber of AcademyHealth organizational affiliate, Lown Institute, highlight key recommendations to eliminate medication overload in older adults.
Embedded Pragmatic Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: Difficult to Define and Implement, but Desperately Needed
Embedded Pragmatic Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: Difficult to Define and Implement, but Desperately Needed
Moving Policy Upstream to Advance Adolescent Flourishing Rapid Evidence Review: Appendices
These appendices for a rapid evidence review on interventions for teen wellbeing include key definitions, methods, narrative summary of findings, findings by outcome, evidence tables, and a list of excluded reviews.
Rapid Evidence Review Examines Interventions Aimed at Improving Teen Wellbeing
Including 34 systematic reviews and two large-scale interventions, this rapid evidence review makes recommendations for intervention and research design as well as highlights opportunities to more broadly focus interventions on social determinants of health.
Webinar: 2019 Child Health Services Research IG Abstract Session
This webinar will be a research abstract presentation panel, providing a forum for child health services researchers to share their work with peers.
The 2020 Health Debate Pt. 2: Achieving Public Goals through Financing Reform
Coverage and financing will continue to dominate the 2020 election debate. That makes it all the more important to explore how financing proposals by candidates of both parties can contribute to a broader population and public health agenda.