Overview Dr. Mays visited Miami to participate in the Florida International University Department of Health Policy and Management Seminar Series. The audience members were provided valuable information on the use of longitudinal data from a national cohort of U.S. communities to estimate geographic...

Overview Public health services and delivery systems have the potential to improve population health and reduce health inequities by intervening on pathways that connect social and economic determinants to health outcomes. This session profiles the developing field of public health services and...

Overview Project ACHIEVE examines the comparative effectiveness of care transition programs designed to help hospitalized patients and their caregivers navigate successfully back to home and community settings. Supported by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), ACHIEVE compares...

Overview Objective: The provision of community benefits in exchange for tax-exemption status for Not-for-Profit (NFP) Hospitals has been a health policy area of interest especially as it relates to the adequacy of benefits provided relative to the amount of foregone governmental tax revenue. This...

Overview Arizona State University’s Center for Applied Behavioral Health Policy (CABHP) held the 18th Annual Summer Institute from July 18-21, 2017. More than 350 professionals from numerous private and state agencies gathered for four days of networking and education. Details Project: Financing and...

Overview Fragmentation between health care delivery, public health, and community service systems represents a significant barrier to improving the health, well-being, and equity in our country. We propose to establish the “Action Research Center for a Culture of Health (ARCCOH): Financing and...

Overview The research team presented at the 2018 Academy Health Annual Research Meeting in Seattle, WA. The full abstract for the presentation entitled, “Wraparound Services As a Strategy to Reduce Hospitalizations” can be found here. Details Project: Improving Population and Clinical Health with...

Overview The research team presented at the American Medical Informatics Association's 2017 annual symposium in Washington D.C. Their presentation was entitled "Using EHR and HIE data to identify patients’ need for services that address the social determinants of health." Details Project: Improving...

Overview Systems for Action researcher, Dr. Mariana Chilton from Drexel University, 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 research...

Overview On June 24th, 2020, S4A Investigators Drs. Yuhua Bao and Lisa Nixon led the webinar " Payment Decision Support Tool for Coordinated Specialty Care" as part of the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center-sponsored EPLC Online Discussion Series. The research team is working to...