March 2022
April 12, 2022
3:00–4:00 p.m. ET
North Campus Research Complex
Building 10, Research Auditorium
Reception to follow from 4:004:30 p.m.
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 IS REQUIRED
Application Deadline
Friday, April 22
IHPI is pleased to announce a call for applications to fill up to four open seats on the Early Career Faculty Advisory Council (FAC). The primary role of the FAC is to advise IHPI leadership on how the Institute can help support and advance the careers of early-career faculty. We encourage applications from faculty in disciplines not already represented on the council and welcome all early-career faculty with a strong interest to apply. Learn more about the FAC, eligibility criteria, and the application process here

Please direct questions to Jodie Moore.
Our experts
Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy
Elective surgery comes with costs, discomfort, caregiving needs, and morebut most older adults who opt for an operation were very satisfied they did. The new findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging found 30% of people age 50 to 80 said they had considered having or had an elective operation in the past five years. 
Steven Broglio
Nearly 4 million concussions occur each year in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified concussion as a significant public health concern. A new brief authored by Steven Broglio, Ph.D., A.T.C., professor of kinesiology and director of the U-M Concussion Center, explores the current science of long-term neurological health impacts.
Assistant Professor of nursing Sheria Robinson-Lane, Ph.D., M.H.A., M.S., R.N. is working to engage a broader audience around her life’s work, demonstrating how nurses can be some of the most impactful champions for health equity.
Sheria Robinson-Lane
As the world transitions to the “endemic” phase of this pandemic, IHPI experts address what individuals, leaders, and researchers should consider moving forward. Speakers included:
New members
Welcome to IHPI!
Institute for Social Research
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Internal Medicine
Accolades
Member achievements, awards, 
and appointments
Payal K. Patel, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of infectious diseases and medical director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, was appointed to serve a four-year term as a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.
Payal Patel
Learn something new
Education, training, grants, and skill building
The Early Career Development Roadmap tool is designed to help early career faculty gain a better understanding of their potential career development trajectory. This interactive tool includes 5, 7, and 10-year roadmaps with key career development dimensions and milestones designed to help faculty build their professional path, guide discussions with mentors, track and adjust their progress, and access institutional resources available throughout their professional development and career planning.
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Watch this session's video to learn more about the Early Career Development Roadmap, and see other presentations including:
  • Leading with your WHY
  • The Check Boxes: Opportunities & Complications of Teaching and Service
  • Mentorship & Personal Growth Panel
The Workforce Diversity & Health Equity Initiative at IHPI focuses on ways to increase innovation and research through diverse leadership and the creation of health equity-driven policies. On March 10, initiative leaders presented an overview of its mission and shared the latest progress from its three work groups: Faculty Recruitment & Retention, Career Advancement & Leadership Development, and Inequities in Care Delivery at Michigan Medicine. 
Upcoming dates: April 5 and 27, June 8 and 14 (various times available)
Location: Zoom (link will be shared upon sign-up)
IHPI’s Policy Engagement and External Relations team is offering office hours to provide policy engagement advice, strategies, and tools for IHPI members seeking to have a greater impact on health policy and practice through their research. They can discuss:
  • Translating your work and insights for policy audiences
  • How to share findings with policy audiences and develop a targeted dissemination plan
  • Opportunities for funding and support through IHPI Policy Sprints
  • Opportunities such as fellowships, advisory committees/workgroups, and speaking opportunities

Contact Sarah Wang with questions or to sign-up for a different date.
Nominations due: April 4, 2022

This Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) award recognizes the value of mentoring at U-M in helping early-career investigators reach across disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of science. Nominees may come from any discipline in any school, department, or program at any of U-M’s three campuses, and they do not need to have any affiliation with the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research.
Application due: April 18, 2022

The U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention anticipates funding 5-8 one-year projects in 2022 that have the potential to advance firearm injury prevention science, research, or scholarship, particularly in proposals addressing existing inequalities, disparities, and inequities related to firearm injury. Award amounts will depend on the size and scope of the proposed project, and are expected to range between $5,000 and $50,000 per award. 
Deadline: April 15, 2022

The Susan B. Meister Award for Best Paper in Child Health Policy recognizes an outstanding scientific paper in child health policy in the past year. Awardees will be honored at The Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy with a plaque of acknowledgment including a $1,000 honorarium in support of their research.
HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE
The largest interdisciplinary index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications, and working papers.
The index allows you to:
  1. track policy impact by determining where research output is cited in policy; and
  2. search for policy documents.
One-year trial through March 23, 2023.

Save the dates
Events that connect and engage
Join us in person at NCRC and reconnect with your IHPI colleagues!

Date: May 19, 2022
Time: 1:002:30 p.m.
Registration details coming soon

Join us for a webinar to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging, presented by the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation and AARP. Distinguished national leaders will share the latest research and discuss opportunities to enhance health as we age. Presenters include:
Author, Geriatrician, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco
Director of Global Aging, AARP
Director of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging, U-M Chief Health Officer, and Professor of Medicine
Date: Monday, April 11, 2022
Time: 3:005:00 p.m.
In-person and live-streamed

President Mary Sue Coleman, Vice President for Research Rebecca Cunningham, and Vice President for Government Relations Chris Kolb invite you to an engaging event featuring conversations celebrating the 2021 recipients of the President’s Awards for Public Engagement.
2021 National and State Leadership Awardee
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
2021 Public Impact Awardee
Director, Poverty Solutions and Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work
Following the awards, John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., Director, Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and Alex Peahl, M.D., M.Sc., Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, will present: IHPI Policy Sprints: The Case of Prenatal Care Redesign
Connect with your colleagues:
New IHPI Run/Walk Club
Looking for an opportunity to stay active while also connecting with IHPI colleagues? Join the new IHPI Run/Walk Club! The Club will meet on Thursdays from April 7 through June 9 at 3:45 p.m. in Gallup Park in the parking lot before the wooden bridge. All paces and levels of experience are welcome for a loop of about 1.25 miles.

Please also consider signing up for the IHPI team at the Dexter-Ann Arbor Run on Sunday, June 5. Participants must pay their own registration fee. Questions or suggestions? Please email Erica Solway.
Browse upcoming seminars, lectures, and conferences, and catch recaps of past events from the archives.
In the news
Our members making headlines
A new study, IHPI National Clinician Scholar Kathryn Taylor, M.D., and Hari Nathan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of surgery, found unequal outcomes and higher spending for cancer surgery in patients over 65 who are “dual eligible” for Medicare and Medicaid.

Published in JAMA Surgery, the study looked at the fate of patients who had surgery for four types of cancer and found they suffer more complications, stay in the hospital longer, and have a lower chance of going home.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for telemedicine boomedincreasing 63-fold among Medicare users alone from approximately 840,000 telehealth visits in 2019 to 52.7 million in 2020.

A new study led by Kathleen Li, M.D., M.S., adjunct clinical lecturer of emergency medicine, found that in telemedicine visits related to acute respiratory infection, contractor-supplied physicians prescribed antibiotics to patients nearly twice as often as emergency physicians employed by the hospital system.
A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health and led by Michele Heisler, M.D., M.P.A., professor of internal medicine, showed community health workers (CHW) employed by Medicaid health plans can help low-income people rely less on the emergency room and more on outpatient care. The CHWs in the study worked with Medicaid participants to make a plan for their health and connect them with social and health care services in their local area. 
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To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:
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  • Improving the health of communities
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