This webinar detailed a unique and longstanding multi-sectoral partnership to address asthma and poor housing conditions in Boston. It described program, policy and systems change strategies that have improved multifamily housing and ensured that residents with asthma have access to healthier home environments.
Faculty: Drew Harris, D.P.M., M.P.H., Jefferson School of Population Health (moderator); Andrew Bindman, M.D., Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco; Fern Goodhart, M.S.P.H., Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Tom Udall (D-Utah)
This webinar addressed the potential policy responses to the growth of narrow network plans and identified where more evidence is needed, to inform researchers and decision makers.
Faculty: Margo Edmunds, Ph.D., AcademyHealth (moderator); David Fleming, M.D., M.P.H., PATH; Paul Kuehnert, DNP, RN, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; David Ross, ScD, Public Health Informatics Institute; and Arpana Verma, Ph.D., MBChB, M.P.H., FFPH, Manchester Urban Collaboration on Health
This two-part free seminar series, taught by Dr. Lynn Whitener of Information Packaging, LLC, is designed for library and information professionals with an interest in learning more about research resources for topics in health services, delivery, and outcomes. The first seminar, taught by Dr. Whitener and Ione Auston of NICHSR at the National Library of Medicine, provides a robust overview of PubMed search filters designed especially to identify health services research (HSR), as well as a new resource to identify comparative effectiveness research. The second seminar addresses specialized resources for HSR, including HSRProj, a database of ongoing research in the field of HSR, and HSRR, a database of datasets, measures, and indices.