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IHPI invites nominations for the annual IHPI Policy Impact Award, which recognizes our members whose research has had a substantial impact on health policy or practice at the local, state, national, or international level. Nominations are due by February 9, 2024. | | |
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On Thursday, Dec.14, Ashley Gearhardt, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.S., professor of psychology, will testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee in a hearing about factors contributing to and options to address the rising obesity and diabetes rates in the U.S. | | |
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Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S., associate professor of urology, testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care about the need for action to ensure continued telehealth access for people with Medicare. | | |
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Employment at nursing homes is 10.5% below pre-pandemic levels compared to 3.3% for hospitals and 1.6% for physician offices, according to a study by Thuy Nguyen, Ph.D., M.P.A., research assistant professor of public health, and colleagues. | | |
Three out of every four older adults say they have experienced a fraud attempt by phone, text, email, mail or online in the last two years, according to a new National Poll on Healthy Aging. Three in ten say they’ve been victims of at least one scam. | | |
Accolades
Member achievements, awards,
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The Michigan Society of Fellows welcomes its newest cohort of 13 senior fellows, including Paula Lantz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., professor of public policy. Lantz and her colleagues will help foster a spirited, cross-disciplinary intellectual community at U-M and serve as mentors to the society’s postdoctoral fellows. |
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Learn something new
Education, training, grants, and skill building
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This one-year master’s degree program (M.Sc.) is open to clinicians who want to learn about health policy, the sociocultural determinants of health, and various methods relevant to health services research. A limited number of clinicians are accepted every year to this tuition-based program and the class size is limited to 20. | | |
Early Career Faculty Workshop
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2024 | 8:30−2:00 p.m. ET
Location: NCRC
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Session Dates: February 21, March 6, March 20 (three session series)
Time: 5:30–9:00 p.m. ET via Zoom
Cost: $150 with full refund after participation in all three sessions
IHPI is partnering with the Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR) to offer a winter K Writing Workshop. Participants will work in small groups and exchange draft sections of their proposals with experienced faculty coaches. Each session will focus on different sections of the career development award proposal.
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Deadline: Friday, January 26
This 10-week program is designed to engage students with IHPI faculty members outside of their academic unit for research project focusing on health services research, health policy, and/or racial health disparities. Awarded fellows and interns will receive a $5,000 stipend.
If you have a project that would benefit from student involvement over the summer, complete this form.
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Did you know the Institute provides access to a variety of open and common touchdown spaces at NCRC? These include a new "Zoom Room," located on the fourth floor of NCRC Building 16, Room 468C.
The room is equipped with a web camera, dual monitors, a docking station, a ring light, a headset, and a microphone for your Zooming needs. To reserve this room, please email Jodie Moore.
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Save the dates
Events that connect and engage
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Watch research presentations by three early-career faculty members:
Delivering high-quality cancer care: The team, the team, the team
Archana Radhakrishnan, M.D., M.H.S., assistant professor of internal medicine
Risk-based modeling in seizure prediction: Leveraging absolute risk to understand absolute risk reduction
Samuel (Sam) Terman, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of neurology
Improving cardiac rehab participation through data, collaboration, and policy
Michael Thompson, Ph.D., assistant professor of cardiac surgery
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December 19
2:00−2:30 p.m. ET
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January 9
10:00−10:30 a.m. ET
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In the news
Our members making headlines
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Focusing on the ‘tripledemic’ of RSV, influenza and COVID-19 infections that occurred last year, results from a new study underscore the importance of all types of hospital emergency departments being prepared to care for sick children. The analysis, conducted by IHPI national clinician scholar Alexander Janke, M.D., M.H.S., and colleagues, shows that pediatric viral and respiratory emergency visits shot up 72% during the tripledemic from September to December 2022, and were 16% higher than the same period in 2021.
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Domestic violence protective orders are associated with reductions in intimate partner homicides, and therefore serve as a critical tool for protecting victims and survivors, according to a federal policy review by a U-M team led by April Zeoli, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of public health. | |
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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.
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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