Overview Individuals under the U.S. probation system have higher incidences of health conditions including substance abuse and mental illness and are less likely to access health care and other social services, such as education, transportation, employment, and housing, than those not involved in...

Overview Dr. Mays present Delivery and Financing Systems for Population Health: Networks, Incentives, and Policy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Population Health Workforce Initiative meeting. This workshop for the CDC's new Population Health Fellowship program reviews the...

Overview The 2017 conference, titled Arizona’s Opioid Epidemic: Evidence – Interventions – Policy, will present recent Arizona opioid epidemic data and will explore interventions and future policy initiatives within many sectors including: public health, healthcare and managed care systems, first...

Overview Systems for Action researcher, Dr. David Meltzer from the University of Chicago, participated in a panel session with grantees from the Systems for Action, Evidence for Action, and Policies for Action programs at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in June. The panelists presented...

Overview The research team presented an oral presentation at the 2017 American Public Health Association Conference in Atlanta, GA. The abstract entitled, "Field test of the CDC uniform definitions for elder abuse and neglect surveillance using police encounter data" can be viewed here. Details...

Overview Dr. Mays was invited to speak at the Ohio State University College of Public Health in Columbus, Ohio. In this session, he described new empirical approaches for classifying and comparing public health delivery systems based on their organizational and network characteristics. Using these...

Overview Building on integrated data sources from Arizona’s medical, mental health, and criminal justice systems, this project explores opportunities to better coordinate services for persons with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders. Using interactive system dynamics modeling and network...

Homeless individuals experience a higher risk for mortality, chronic illness and mental health disorders, and are often high utilizers of healthcare. Since 2012, the Housing for Health (HFH) initiative created by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) seeks to reduce homelessness...