AcademyHealth provides information on the latest developments in the field of health services research (HSR). In this section you will find evidence and tools for understanding the HSR literature, making optimal use of existing methods and evaluating and using new methods for research.
From generating stronger evidence to helping policymakers use it and accelerating the adoption of proven innovations, AcademyHealth's new Signature Program Centers address critical gaps across the evidence-to-impact continuum. Learn how these centers will help the field achieve greater reach, relevance, and real-world impact.
Health services research (HSR) shapes decisions that affect care, policy, and communities every day, yet the field is often invisible to those outside of it. HSR Week is a new AcademyHealth initiative created to celebrate the people behind this work and help make the impact of HSR easier to see and understand.
Health services research (HSR) helps ensure that health care works better in the real world, closing the gap between what we know and what people experience. This one-pager explains how HSR identifies what works, improves care delivery, and supports smarter decisions across the health system.
The disruptions of the last year will eventually give way to opportunities to design better health care and scientific systems. International experience with the tools of strategic foresight demonstrates its value in anticipating and creating better policies, programs, and organizations.
A recent Executive Order could shift federal health research funding from a science-driven model to one with increased political and fiscal control, potentially disrupting traditional research processes and priorities in favor of conformity with political and ideological goals.
In a new Washington Post op-ed and a recent appearance on KKF Healths’ “What the Health?” podcast, AcademyHealth CEO Dr. Aaron E. Carroll argues that facts alone aren’t enough to rebuild public trust in science. Our new course gives researchers the tools to communicate with empathy, clarity, and credibility.
Amidst a challenging landscape for science and evidence, AcademyHealth’s Field in Focus highlighted the importance of communicating and measuring research impact.
As our blog series has highlighted, the removal of public health data has impeded research and has serious implications for the scientific enterprise. In response, several crowdsourcing efforts have emerged in an imperfect effort to fill the gap.
Research nominated as the best abstract for each theme from the 2025 Call for Abstracts explores topics related to how prepared hospitals are for the next pandemic, gender differences in primary care physician earnings and outcomes, and methods for decomposing heterogeneous treatment effects.
A recent AcademyHealth members-only webinar focused on strategies to help health services researchers find, apply for, and secure funding from sources they previously did not explore, such as private foundations.
