Public & Population Health

Blog Post

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.

Posted Mar 17, 2020 By Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., FAAP

Topics Public & Population Health Delivering Better Care

Blog Post

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.

Posted Feb 19, 2020 By Sunita Krishnan, M.P.H., Allison Squires, FAAN, Ph.D., RN

Topics Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health

Blog Post

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.

Posted Jan 28, 2020 By Shannon Brownlee, MSc, Judith Garber

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health

Blog Post

Embedded Pragmatic Trials for Alzheimer’s Disease: Difficult to Define and Implement, but Desperately Needed

Posted Jan 27, 2020 By Jill Harrison, Ph.D.

Topics Delivering Better Care Public & Population Health

Publication

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.

Posted Dec 10, 2019

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Publication

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.

Posted Dec 10, 2019

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Past Event

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.

Date & Time November 19, 2019, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Delivering Better Care Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Blog Post

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.

Posted Nov 7, 2019 By Edward L. Hunter

Topics Building Healthy Communities Public & Population Health

Past Event

Webinar: The Power of PCORnet

The Health Information Technology Interest Group hosted a webinar series on research networks and their relevance for the AcademyHealth community.

Date & Time November 5, 2019, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET Location Online

Topics Public & Population Health Delivering Better Care Data Sources

Blog Post

Creating an Evidence-Based Cancer Survivorship Care Quality Framework

Larissa Nekhlyudov, AcademyHealth member and inaugural NCI/AcademyHealth visiting scholar, highlights her work to develop a cancer survivorship care quality framework.

Posted Oct 17, 2019 By Larissa Nekhlyudov, M.D., M.P.H.

Topics Quality Improvement Public & Population Health