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...

Overview The Academic Consortium on Criminal Justice Health’s 11 th Academic Health and Policy Conference on Correctional Health 2018 provided a forum for researchers, clinicians, administrators, educators, policy makers, and grant funding leaders to network, share evidence, and learn about emerging...

Overview In 2016, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the Systems for Action Research Program to test new mechanisms for aligning medical, social, and public health delivery systems to improve health and health equity. The Arizona State University received funding as one of the Systems for...

Overview The delivery and financing systems for medical care, public health, and social and community services are powerful determinants of health and wellbeing for families and communities across the U.S. Unfortunately, these systems interact in complex and often poorly understood ways through...

Overview The research team for The Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture Program presented at the 2017 Academy Health Dissemination and Implementation Conference in Arlington, VA. The presentation was entitled “The Comprehensive, Community, and Culture Program: Early Lessons from Implementation...

Overview The University of Chicago’s Urban Labs project uses a randomized controlled trial to test the feasibility and effectiveness of a comprehensive community care model for low-income, urban-dwelling seniors at high risk of hospital admission. The model combines (1) comprehensive care physicians...

Overview Lack of coordination of health and community services with individual agencies working in isolation leads to wasted resources and poor outcomes for the most vulnerable in our nation’s neighborhoods. One method of addressing this lack of coordination is by adopting a place-based system...

Overview The panel assembled for the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science 2018 Conference presented research findings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Systems for Action research program. About Social, economic, and environmental conditions strongly influence population...

Overview In March of 2017, Dr. Ricardo Basurto-Davila had the opportunity to share his preliminary findings at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Annual Science Summit. He was able to share the project's unique approach to permanent supportive housing by focusing on high-ultilizers...

Overview The prolonged activation of stress response systems among children responding to adversity such as homelessness, hunger, or neglect, is a predictor of poor health and continued poverty among low-income families. To study the health and economic impacts and systems implications of integrated...