Learning Communities Can Help Us Survive and Thrive
Navigating the unprecedented change and uncertainty in today’s health care landscape requires us to carefully design the best next steps for a path forward. At UPMC, we believe that a learning community approach will not only help health care stakeholders weather current challenges but also build a stronger and more sustainable stakeholder-driven research infrastructure.
Shaping the Future of Health Care Organizations: 2025 ARM Sessions of the Organizational Behavior and Management Theme
2025 ARM Theme Leaders Bo Kim and Debora Goldberg provide an overview of ARM sessions focused on Organizational Behavior and Management at the upcoming conference in Minneapolis.
Immigrant Inequities in Uninsurance and Postpartum Medicaid Extension: A Quasi-Experimental Study in New York City, 2016–2021
Researchers determine if de facto postpartum Medicaid extension during the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) reduced immigrant versus US-born inequities in uninsurance.
Emergency Departments: A Potential Safety Net for Contraceptive Care Post-Dobbs
Emergency Departments show promise as settings where health care providers could provide critical contraception care, expanding access within their communities.
Listening to the Voices of Black Women: The Reality of Racism in Medicine
In the fifth of a series of interviews with our Community Research for Health Equity grantees, AcademyHealth interviews Dr. Tanya Funchess and Warren Jones from Institute for the Advancement of Minority Health to learn more about their project goals and findings during Black History Month.
Public Policy for Troubled Safety-Net Hospitals in the Aftermath of the Steward Health Failure
Transforming failing safety-net hospitals into community hubs which are integrated into emerging systems of care is a strategy policy makers should consider. Government guaranteed financing for the conversions will attract capital for both for-profit and non-profit operators.
Dr. Tiffany Green and Dr. Maria Rodriguez Named New AcademyHealth Reproductive Health Senior Scholars in Residence
The new Scholars will provide thought leadership on reproductive health issues within the health services research field and provide expert guidance to the recently launched Research Community on the Equity Impacts of Dobbs.
Turning Words to Action: A Pathway to Creating a System of High-Value, Equitable Care
In the final blog of a five-part series on AcademyHealth’s collaborative journey to develop a research agenda on high-value, equitable care, consensus group member, Danielle Brooks, shares her thoughts on what is needed to advance the research agenda.
Building Equity in the Process of Researching Health Equity
In this blog post, the fourth in a series on AcademyHealth’s collaborative effort to develop a research agenda for high-value, equitable care, consensus group member Somava Saha, reflects on the equity of our evolving research enterprise.