Why Do We Meet? The Field Responds
AcademyHealth senior staff reflect on the results of a poll that reveal how AcademyHealth conferences and events foster community for the field.
The 2020s are Disrupting How We Think About and Do Research
AcademyHealth Vice President Michael Gluck examines the ways in which COVID-19 and other societal changes have disrupted traditional methods of HSR in favor of new innovations.
Three Key Equity Considerations for Advancing High-Value Care
In a webinar for the Research Community on Low-Value-Care, experts shared three key considerations for designing an equitable, high-value health care system. They emphasized the need to ensure equitable care is being delivered by a diverse workforce with an understanding of how to use data to improve interventions to advance equity.
What Makes a Good Mentor? Lessons Learned from Phil Lee
AcademyHealth President and CEO Dr. Lisa Simpson reflects on the passing of her teacher and mentor Dr. Philip R. Lee, a founding leader of health policy research, highlighting three lessons that have shaped her work over the last 30 years.
AcademyHealth’s Racial Equity Strategy Aims for Progress in Three Areas of Engagement
After several years of working to diversify the health services research (HSR) workforce and build a community through networking and mentoring, we want and need to do much more to accelerate systemic change.
2020 AcademyHealth Meeting of Members Webinar: The Impact of the 2020 Election on Health Services and Health Policy Research
Attendees learned about the political landscape and how it’s shaping the field of health services research and health policy and got an inside peak on AcademyHealth and direction in which it is helping the field move.
Where Social Context and Health Services Research Intersect
Voices of a New Paradigm: The AcademyHealth Paradigm Project is profiling leaders whose work helps point Health Services Research in a new direction. Some are new to HSR, others may just be new to us – leaders in other fields whose work is inspiring or applicable. All are challenging the limits of the current paradigm in ways that help make HSR more effective and have greater impact.
Senate Labor HHS Funding Bill Devastates Health Services Research in a Pandemic
AcademyHealth is deeply disappointed by the counterproductive and devastating 24 percent cut to AHRQ in the Senate’s FY21 Labor-HHS bill.
Webinar: Re-designing for a High-Value, Equitable Health Care System in the Time of COVID
AcademyHealth hosted a webinar for the Research Community on Low-Value-Care on designing an equitable, high-value health care system.
Four Tips to Increase Audience Engagement When Presenting Virtually
As we all contend with Zoom fatigue and distracted audiences dealing with a range of work-from-home interruptions, AcademyHealth’s Director of Communications and Public Relations Lauren Adams shares tips for compelling virtual presentations that will keep your audience engaged.