Read on Washington's September 2025 Advocacy Update
This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on appropriations, impoundments, new strategic guidance from AHRQ, and more.
A Looming Trade-Off: What is at Stake with AHRQ's "Gold Standard" Focus?
AHRQ released a new strategy document that signals a potential pivot point for U.S. health services research (HSR). While the document emphasizes methodological rigor, it raises serious questions about the future of three pillars of HSR: patient-centered care, health disparities research, and dissemination & implementation (D&I) science. Each of these areas is essential to making evidence matter in the real world.
AcademyHealth's Situation Report: AHRQ Priorities Released, Experts Push Back on Autism Claims
In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we examine AHRQ’s newly released priorities, expert responses to recent claims on autism and vaccines, and the latest on the government shutdown.
Webinar: “I Got You, Sis!” Advancing Preeclampsia Education and Care in Black Communities
In this session, Laney Poye, Kima Tozay, and Trashaun Powell described how the Preeclampsia Foundation took an evidence-based, trust-building approach to address its impact on Black women and birthing people
AcademyHealth’s Situation Report: GAO Challenges AHRQ Grant Impoundments, Medicaid Cuts Stir Debate
In this issue of AcademyHealth's Situation Report, we examine the GAO's challenge to AHRQ impoundments, marking a critical juncture for federal health research funding, alongside the potential impacts of proposed Medicaid cuts and ACA tax credit shifts on health care access and affordability.
AcademyHealth Applauds GAO Investigation into AHRQ Impoundments
Congress is formally asking GAO to investigate if the collapse of AHRQ grantmaking that AcademyHealth has identified constitutes an unlawful impoundment
Why Maternal and Child Health Researchers Must Center Bodily Autonomy to Remain Relevant in the Post-Dobbs Era
Researchers and advocates often overlook the fundamental issue of bodily autonomy in post-Dobbs abortion discourse.
AcademyHealth’s Situation Report: Concerns about Scientific Integrity at HHS, ACA Subsidies at Risk
In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we highlight testimony raising questions about scientific integrity at the CDC, the potential impacts of a government shutdown on ACA subsidies and research funding, and the launch of a $50B CMS initiative to transform rural health care.
AcademyHealth CEO Aaron Carroll in the New York Times: What American Health Care Gets Right
AcademyHealth’s Situation Report: Threats to Federal Grantmaking, Medicaid Cuts Hit Rural Hospitals
In this issue of AcademyHealth’s Situation Report, we highlight a recent executive order affecting federal funding of research, efforts to disband an expert panel that reviews drug applications, as well as impacts of Medicaid cuts following the reconciliation bill that further threaten science-driven research and evidence.