Referrals from clinical settings to social services in the Sarasota, FL community increased during COVID. This Systems for Action study investigates how the local community is handling the increased need for capacity. A community survey was conducted over the spring and summer of 2021. Eighty-eight...

Increasing access and retention in treatment services is critical to improving health outcomes and reducing substance abuse overdose deaths. This research project tests how a transit system can enhance substance abuse treatment outcomes and reduce provider-level treatment costs for substance abuse...

Research in Progress webinar hosted by Systems for Action. Presenters: Janna Gewirtz O'Brien, MD, MPH | University of Minnesota Meghan Ford, MPH | University of Minnesota Anne Lemieux | University of Minnesota Zainab Mohamed | University of Minnesota Emma McGrew | University of Minnesota Youth...

Overview This presentation reviews the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems and its applicability for monitoring the effects of the Affordable Care Act on public health delivery within the U.S. Details Project: Health Reform Implementation and Comprehensive Population Health Systems...

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 Dr. Mays traveled to Virginia to present Public Health System Capital and its Health and Economic Returns during the Public Health Accreditation Board Quarterly Meeting. A growing body of research indicates that strong community networks supporting multi-sector contributions to population...

Overview On June 27, Mays conducted a methods workshop for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) annual meeting of State Environmental Health Directors (SHED) in Pasadena, CA on “Using Economic Evaluation Methods to Understand the Value of Public Health Interventions.”...

Overview Objectives: Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues finds wide geographic and intertemporal variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy in the U.S., using 1.4 billion administrative tax records from the IRS linked to nearly 7 million federal death records. Many...

Overview Dr. Mays presented Income, Life Expectancy, and the Strength of Multi-Sector Networks for Population Health before the Prevention and Population Health Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center (CMMI) in Baltimore, Md. Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues...

Overview Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems show that hospital and employer contributions to population health activities vary widely across U.S. communities. As peripheral participants in the organizational networks that support population health activities, these...