JUNE 2024

NEWS TO NOTE

Time-sensitive information

Call for applications: Funding for IHPI early career member research

Application Deadline: July 12, 2024, 5:00 p.m. 

Funding: Up to $10,000 is available per project


Made possible by a generous philanthropic gift from Lew Sandy and Sue Hassmiller, this competitive research award is designed to provide seed funding for IHPI early career faculty members to help catalyze new research or support new innovations in ongoing research.

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IHPI Policy Sprints: Seeking proposals for timely, policy-relevant projects

Proposal Deadline: July 22, 2024, 5:00 p.m. 

Funding: Up to $15,000 is available per project


IHPI's Policy Sprint initiative aims to catalyze timely, policy-relevant projects that have the potential to inform discussions related to the health of individuals, families, and communities, or health care equity, quality, safety, and affordability.

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New waves of National Poll on Healthy Aging data available for public use

The National Poll on Healthy Aging publishes data for free, public use to help advance research on aging and health. Topics covered in the newly available Waves 10 and 11 include older adults' perspectives on aging in place, arthritis/joint pain, integrative medicine, women's health, at-home medical tests, religion/spirituality, addictive eating, and providing support.

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OUR EXPERTS

Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy


Surgeon General's firearm violence advisory cites work by U-M researchers

Research by multiple U-M faculty is cited in a new advisory by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy that outlines firearm violence in America as a public health crisis. Patrick Carter, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine, Jason Goldstick, Ph.D., research associate professor of emergency medicine, April Zeoli, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of public health, and former member Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., all have research cited in the report.

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IHPI experts present aging and long-term care research in Congressional briefing

Recently, four IHPI experts HwaJung Choi, Ph.D., M.A., Jeff Kullgren, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., Sheria Robinson-Lane, Ph.D., M.H.A., M.S., R.N., and Xiaoling Xiang, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.S.W. – shared their research findings and insights on social and community factors that impact long-term care in the U.S. during a briefing with the bipartisan Long-Term Care Congressional Caucus.


The virtual briefing was hosted by Caucus co-chair U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and moderated by Courtney Polenick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and a health and aging fellow in Dingell's Office.

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Ending Unequal Treatment: IHPI director helps renew focus on health care inequities

A landmark report that launched the issue of health care inequity into the national spotlight has just gotten a landmark update, thanks to a National Academies committee that includes IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P. The new report, called Ending Unequal Treatment, concludes that while the American health care system has made some progress over the last 20 years in addressing differences in how members of different racial and ethnic backgrounds receive health care, much remains to be done to ensure equitable care. 

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Spector-Bagdady and Price awarded AI health transformation grant

The Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society has announced the recipients of its 2024 Propelling Original Data Science grants. Kayte Spector-Bagdady, J.D., M.B.E., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Nicholson Price, Ph.D., J.D., professor of law, will spearhead transformations in health care research around trust and governance in clinical AI applications.

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Education, training, grants, and skill-building

Attending the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) in Baltimore?

If you're heading to Baltimore for ARM 2024 this weekend, check out this full list of podium and poster presentations by U-M health services researchers, as well as networking opportunities. Stop by the exhibit hall to connect with IHPI, Institute for Social Research, U-M Department of Learning Health Sciences, and National Dementia Workforce Study.

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Presenting for Impact: Improving your Poster Presentation

Scientific posters are a widely used format for presenting research findings at national meetings. In this video, Andrew Ibrahim, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of surgery, walks through four design strategies to make conference posters stand out.

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Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program

in Bioethics

Internal Competition Deadline: August 5, 2024

Sponsor Required Letter of Intent Deadline: September 18, 2024

Sponsor Full Proposal Deadline: January 2025


This career development award for junior faculty supports innovative bioethics research that helps resolve pressing ethical issues in clinical, biomedical, and public health decision-making, policy and practice.

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HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE

Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity


This KFF analysis examines how Hispanic, Black, Asian, and American Indian and Alaska Native people fare compared to white people across 64 measures of health care and social determinants of health using the most recent data available from federal surveys, administrative sets, and the 2023 KFF Survey on Racism, Discrimination and Health.


Interested in learning more?  

Email: mlibrary-ncrc@umich.edu

SAVE THE DATES

Events that connect and engage

2024 IHPI Member Tailgate Party

Saturday, September 21, 2024 | 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Join your IHPI colleagues and their families for plenty of food, fun, games, and spirit before the Wolverines take on USC! Stop by this family-friendly outdoor event whether you're attending the game or not.

IHPI EVENTS CALENDAR

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and catch recaps of past events 

IN THE NEWS

Our members making headlines

NATIONAL POLL ON HEALTHY AGING

Poll shows most older adults don’t know about resources that can help them navigate aging and caregiving

Older Americans may be missing out on a wide range of programs and services that could help them meet their needs or assist their aging loved ones, according to new results from the National Poll on Healthy Aging


The poll asked more than 4,000 adults over age 50 about their awareness and use of Area Agencies on Aging, State Health Insurance Assistance Programs, and options for long term services and supports. Only a small minority–less than 10%–said they had used these programs or knew a lot about them.

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Wolverine Caucus event featuring the Michigan Poll

on Healthy Aging

Pre-op visits by video? Most surgeons say no—but are open to post-op telehealth

A new study by a team including Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S., associate professor of urology, and Sarah Krein, Ph.D., R.N., research professor of internal medicine, found that telehealth appointments in the weeks before an operation meet with resistance from members of multiple surgical specialties.

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RELATED STORY

Medicare pays for message-based e-visits. Are older adults using them?

Urgent revisions suggested for Spanish mental health materials

High out-of-pocket costs may be barrier to filling naloxone prescriptions, study shows

New study provides insights into complex factors surrounding maternal suicide


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NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to IHPI

Kira Birditt, Ph.D., M.S.

Social Research (ISR)


Eileen Crawford, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery

Irina Gaynanova, Ph.D., M.S.

Biostatistics


Michelle Munro-Kramer, 

Ph.D., C.N.M., FNP-BC, FAAN

Nursing

Sarah Patterson, Ph.D., M.A.

Social Research (ISR)


Menggang Yu, Ph.D., M.S.

Biostatistics

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