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NEWS TO NOTE
Timely news and information
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Apply by Friday, July 10, 5:00 pm ET for funding of up to $10,000
per project
This competitive research award provides seed funding for IHPI early career faculty members to help catalyze new research or support new innovations in ongoing research. Proposed projects should include a health equity component. Made possible by a generous philanthropic gift from Lew Sandy and Sue Hassmiller.
| | IHPI is excited to announce our new Policy Engagement Interest Group! This group brings together IHPI members who are interested in learning about policy discussions and opportunities at the state and federal levels, engaging with policy audiences, and connecting with IHPI peers. Please complete this interest form to join. | | |
The IHPI Data & Methods Hub has expanded its range of methodological consulting services. Two experienced, Ph.D.-level statisticians from U-M Consulting for Statistics, Computing, and Analytics Research (CSCAR) have recently joined the team. IHPI members can schedule a consultation to discuss any aspect of their data analysis.
Schedule a consultation by completing this intake form. For questions, email ihpi-data@umich.edu.
| | New Early Career Faculty Advisory Council members starting July 2026 | | Alan Weil, J.D., M.P.P., senior vice president of public policy and director of the AARP Public Policy Institute, has joined IHPI's National Advisory Board. Weil served for 10 years as editor-in-chief of Health Affairs. Before that, he held roles with the National Academy for State Health Policy, the Urban Institute, the Colorado Department of Healthcare Policy and Financing, and the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security. Weil also serves as director of the Aspen Institute Health Strategy Group and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. | | Lagisetty joins National Clinician Scholars Program leadership team | |
Pooja Lagisetty, M.D., M.Sc., associate professor of internal medicine, has been named a co-director of the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at IHPI, beginning July 1.
Lagisetty is a nationally recognized clinician, researcher, and mentor with a focus on chronic pain and substance use disorder and an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program (2014−2016). She will join Director Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., and Co-Directors Renu Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., and Milisa Manojlovich, Ph.D., R.N., in providing mentorship to scholars, offering strategic support to the program, and teaching in the Master of Science in Health and Health Care Research degree program.
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SPREAD THE WORD: Applications for the 2027–29 NCSP cohort are preferred by July 15 and accepted through August 15 | | |
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OUR EXPERTS
Groundbreaking research, innovation, and
intellectual energy
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| Just over a decade ago, Michigan expanded its Medicaid health coverage program, opening it to all adults with very low incomes through the Healthy Michigan Plan. Now, a new U-M report shows long-term benefits of this expansion–not just for individuals, but also for primary care clinics and hospitals that serve all Michiganders. It also finds that some of the unique features of Michigan’s Medicaid expansion showed mixed results, such as cost-sharing in the form of copays and monthly premiums, and financial incentives for healthy behaviors. | | A new policy brief highlights research from Minal Patel, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of public health, and colleagues exploring the significant financial, social, and health-related burdens faced by Michiganders living with diabetes. The brief examines how the costs of medications, supplies, and ongoing care can create barriers to effective disease management, leading to stress, reduced treatment adherence, and poorer health outcomes. It also outlines policy opportunities to reduce financial strain and improve access to affordable diabetes care across Michigan. | | Daniel Hertz. Pharm.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacy, explores how years of research and outreach helped shape a new FDA boxed warning requiring DPYD genetic testing before patients begin fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy drugs. He discusses the science behind fluoropyrimidine toxicity, the risks faced by patients with certain genetic variants, and how this policy change could prevent severe side effects, hospitalizations, and deaths while advancing safer, more personalized cancer care. | | | Established in 2013, the Michigan Child Care Related Infections Surveillance Program, or MCRISP, was the first online tool in Michigan and among the first in the U.S. to track pediatric illness. Andrew Hashikawa, M.D., clinical professor of emergency medicine and pediatrics, discusses why it is important to track illnesses in young children, how MCRISP was developed and what a decade of surveillance has shown. | | |
Read our digest of IHPI expert news, highlights, achievements, and more to help you stay connected with the institute. This month's news includes:
- Bell and Montoya receive grant from the MDHHS Rural Health Transformation Program
- Broglio to receive award from National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
- Haymart and Papaleontiou to receive prestigious awards from the American Thyroid Association
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LEARN SOMETHING NEW
Education, training, grants, and skill-building
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From the U.S. Climate Alliance, this resource provides an up-to-date overview of state-level climate action across multiple sectors.
Interested in learning more?
Write mlibrary-ncrc@umich.edu
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SAVE THE DATES
Events that connect and engage
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Join your IHPI colleagues and their families for plenty of food, fun, and games before the Wolverines take on UTEP! Stop by this family-friendly event whether or not you're attending the game. Open to IHPI faculty/scholar members and their families (all ages).
Buying game tickets? Click here and use promo code IHPI26 to purchase in our block by June 30
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Wednesday, July 15
12:00–1:00 pm
Zoom & NCRC Bldg 10 Rm G063
RSVP to Kara Gavin: Indicate in-person (NCRC) or virtual attendance
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IN THE NEWS
Our members making headlines
| | New findings from the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging show that 69% of non-LGBTQ+ adults age 50 and older have at least one personal connection to someone who is LGBTQ+. The poll also found that LGBTQ+ older adults are more likely than their non-LGBTQ+ peers to report fair or poor mental health, activity-limiting disabilities, isolation and a lack of companionship. | | |
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NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to IHPI
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About IHPI
The Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation is the
nation’s largest university-based community of health services researchers.
Our mission is to
foster innovative, interdisciplinary
research to inform policies and practices that advance the
equity, quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare, and
improve health for individuals, families,
and communities.
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