Explore IHPI's 2023 "Year in Review"

Discover how our Institute is addressing the most challenging issues in health and healthcare through collaborative and creative problem-solving.

Call for nominations: IHPI Policy Impact Award

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.

Ellimoottil testifies before Senate subcommittee about telehealth research

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.

Health plays a role in older adults’ vulnerability to scams, poll suggests

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.

Lantz named to Michigan

Society of Fellows

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Advance your training with the IHPI Master's Degree Program in Health

and Health Care Research

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

Winter 2024 K Writing Workshop

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.

2024 IHPI/HSR Summer Student Fellowship and Internship Program: Call for Faculty Projects

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.

Drop-in at IHPI: Collaboration spaces and new Zoom room

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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IHPI Career Development Office Hour

Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m. ET via Zoom

Presenters:

• Sarah Hawley, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine
• Elham Mahmoudi, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S., associate professor of family medicine

ICYMI: Research Seminar Series - Early Career Spotlight

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

What the 2022 ‘tripledemic’ surge meant for children's emergency care

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.

New Michigan landscape map highlights counties most affected by opioid epidemic

A new landscape map and analysis, created by U-M Poverty Solutions and the Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN), show demographic information with a connection to opioid use disorder, examining data such as unemployment rates, annual income, opioid-related hospitalizations, and physical and mental health.

U-M-led federal firearm policy review indicates laws are effective at reducing intimate partner homicide

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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