Public & Population Health

AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute leads this learning collaborative of Medicaid waiver evaluation researchers aimed at examining the policy questions, and study designs, methodologies, data sources and metrics used in Medicaid waiver initiatives.

AcademyHealth, funded by Kaiser Permanente, is engaging leaders in public health research and practice on a priority-setting initiative to define a research agenda for the evidence needed for a reimagined public health system.

With support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), AcademyHealth's Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute and ChangeLab Solutions explored approaches to improving care and delivery of PrEP medication and clinical care services to the Medicaid population.

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AcademyHealth led the Payment Reform for Population Health initiative to examine the opportunities through which the payment system can support population health.

AcademyHealth, in partnership with Econometrica and Family Voices, convenes leading voices to generate a national research agenda to build the evidence needed to optimize school-based mental health services for children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN). This project is funded through the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute® (PCORI®) (#EASCS-38921).

This research community focused on the broad health equity impacts of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on the U.S. health care system and is supported by a collaboration between AcademyHealth and the Commonwealth Fund.

The Medicaid Outcomes Distributed Research Network (MODRN) leveraged their unique data framework to develop a quality measure for hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing, hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing, and hepatitis C treatment initiation for inclusion in the 2027 Adult Core Set.

In collaboration with the University of Kentucky, University of South Carolina’s Institute for Families in Society, and University of Louisiana Monroe, AcademyHealth’s Evidence-Informed State Health Policy Institute is assessing congenital syphilis rates among pregnant Medicaid enrollees in three southern states.

In partnership with Adolescents and Children Together for Health, AcademyHealth leads this project on policy priorities to enhance adolescent health and wellbeing as part of a larger initiative at Well Being Trust to advance the mental, social and spiritual health of the nation.

Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AcademyHealth supports three national change leadership programs though policy and communications training.