February 2022
The National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at IHPI seeks a co-director to serve as part of the top leadership team for this premier healthcare research and policy training program that operates in collaboration with five other leading universities (Duke, Penn, UCLA, UCSF, and Yale). The program aims to train nurse and physician scholars who will become change agents and leaders both inside and outside of academia, and whose careers help advance health equity, invent new models of care, and improve the efficiency and quality of health care.
2022 IHPI Director’s Lecture: A Conversation with Dr. Joneigh Khaldun
3:00−4:00 p.m.
North Campus Research Complex
Livestreaming will be available
Reception to Follow
Join IHPI Director Dr. John Ayanian and Dr. Joneigh Khaldun as they discuss the challenges of mobilizing public health responses to COVID-19 in the face of profound disparities.

Registration coming soon!
Our experts
Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy
Mobile apps make it possible to track everything from exercise to managing a chronic health condition. But a new survey from the National Poll on Healthy Aging shows that most people over age 50 aren’t using such apps—and that those who might get the most benefit are less likely to use them.   
Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., M.S.N., M.Sc, FNP-BC, assistant professor of nursing, will serve a two-year term on the National Advisory Committee on Seniors and Disasters. In her role, she will help evaluate issues and provide recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enhance medical preparedness and response and recovery activities to better address the unique needs of older adults.
Sue Anne Bell
Accolades
Member achievements, awards, 
and appointments
Erica E. Marsh
Erica E. Marsh, M.D., M.S.C.I., has been appointed as an associate director of the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR). In her new role, Dr. Marsh will help shape MICHR’s vision for clinical and translational research across U-M and beyond.
The University of Michigan is honoring faculty members Marisa Eisenberg, Ph.D., M.S., associate professor of epidemiology, and H. Luke Shaefer, Ph.D., Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy and Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, with Presidential awards for public engagement, recognizing their contributions to significantly impact society and address the challenges communities face every day.

Marisa Eisenberg
H. Luke Shaefer
Learn something new
Education, training, grants, and skill building
The Provost’s Office and the Office of the Vice President for Research have each launched new programs to financially support faculty whose research, scholarship, and creative practice have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
U-M Firearm Injury Prevention Institute funding and fellowship opportunities
Applications due: March 1, 2022

The U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention is recruiting for up to six outstanding early-career research investigators to undertake an intensive, two-year post-doctoral program of mentored, applied research focusing on the nature and prevention of firearm injuries.
Submissions due: April 18, 2022

The Institute is offering an inaugural round of pilot grants to generate knowledge and advance innovative solutions that reduce firearm injury.
IHPI is partnering with the Medical School Office of Faculty Development to offer the Faculty Success Program for spring/summer 2022. This 12-week program, modeled after the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity’s Faculty Success Bootcamp, is designed to help early-career faculty with the skills necessary to increase research and writing productivity while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. This program is open to any IHPI faculty member across campus.
If you are submitting a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant application on or before May 7, 2022 (for the August/October 2022 Council round) and your research productivity has been negatively affected by the pandemic, the NIH encourages you to take advantage of several COVID-19-related flexibilities currently in effect.
A selection of scholarly databases, data sources, programs, and news to investigate the overall Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework and research international progress of individual SDGs.

In the news
Our members making headlines
An exercise platform first designed to get kids moving in the classroom and led by Rebecca Hasson, Ph.D., associate professor of kinesiology, has transformed since the pandemic to reach communities across the state of Michigan. Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Activity (InPACT), a fitness program developed by U-M with state and national partners, received $1 million in COVID-19 CARES funds and solidified a partnership with PBS Michigan Learning Channel to air exercise videos on television beginning in January 2021. 
A new study, led by Renuka Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of internal medicine, and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that patients from more socially vulnerable areas were sicker when they got to hospitals, but did just as well by the time they left—suggesting the importance of early and equal access to care.
Michigan residents who were sick with COVID-19 in 2020 were almost twice as likely to experience disability following their illness, according to the latest report from the Michigan COVID-19 Recovery Surveillance Study. The study, led by Nancy Fleischer, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of public health, found that nearly 1 in 3 Black respondents reported a mobility disability after their COVID-19 illness.
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Save the dates
Events that connect and engage
Date: Thursday, March 10
Time: 4:00−5:00 p.m.

Leaders of IHPI’s Workforce Diversity & Health Equity Initiative will present an overview of the initiative and share the latest progress from its three workgroups: Faculty Recruitment & Retention, Career Advancement & Leadership Development, and Inequities in Care Delivery at Michigan Medicine. IHPI members are invited to get involved with the initiative.
Date: Monday, March 14
Time: 2:003:00 p.m.

Mentors: Deborah Levine, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of internal medicine, and Lauren Wallner, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of internal medicine

This session will address how to successfully emphasize team science and teams in grant proposals, and will focus on the following:
  • How to effectively pitch your team in the different components of grants (e.g., research plan, budget justification, bio sketches, clinical trial forms)
  • Tips to demonstrate the team’s prior productivity and collaborations
  • Examples of different ways to highlight team science in grant proposals

To provide a more hands-on experience, the session will be capped at 15 registrants.
Deadline: Friday, March 25, 2022

The Bold Challenges Pollination Workshops bring together interested faculty and external partners (including industry and community representatives) to spark innovative research solutions to complex societal problems. Pollination Workshops include:
  • April 25, 2022: Universal Access to Healthy Water
  • May 4, 2022: Sustainable and Equitable Solutions for the Housing Crisis
  • May 9, 2022: Smart Health Care Systems for Equitable Access
  • May 20, 2022: Healthy Adaptation to Climate Change

IHPI will be co-sponsoring the May 9 Smart Health Care Systems for Equitable Access pollination workshop.
Deadline: March 24, 2022
Meeting Date: June 47, 2022

Share your work with health services researchers, policy analysts, clinicians, and community leaders using evidence and data to improve health and health care for all.

To qualify for presentation as a Late-Breaking Abstract, the submitted research should be likely to have a significant impact on the research community and/or represent a major advance or new finding for which the data or analyses were not available by the regular abstract deadline of January 18, 2022.
March 21
2:30−3:30 p.m.
March 23
12:004:00 p.m.
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The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is committed to improving the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of healthcare services.

To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:
  • Evaluating the impact of healthcare reforms
  • Improving the health of communities
  • Promoting greater value in healthcare
  • Innovating in health IT and healthcare delivery

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