NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024

NEWS TO NOTE

Timely news and information

IHPI's 2024 Year in Review

Explore IHPI’s 2024 Year in Review for highlights of our work to advance the equity, quality, safety, and affordability of healthcare and improve health through collaborative research and learning, rigorous evidence, robust communication, and policy engagement.

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OUR EXPERTS

Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy


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 3, 2025.

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Related: View Past Policy Impact Award Winners

Bell named NIH climate & health scholar

Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAAN, associate professor of nursing, was named a 20242025 NIH Climate and Health Scholar. She will spend a year working with the National Institute on Aging to build research capacity and develop a stronger climate and health knowledge base.

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Bell

Related: IHPI Policy Impact Snapshot: Improving readiness for disasters across the lifespan

Cohn and Gamarel recognized for work in data and health

Amy M. Cohn, Ph.D., professor of industrial and operations engineering, has been named to the 2024 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the field of operations research and analytics.

Kristi Gamarel, Ph.D., M.A., associate professor of public health, has been awarded the 2024 National Institutes of Health Sexual & Gender Minority Mid-Career Investigator Award from the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office.

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Jade Burns, Ph.D., R.N., CPNP-PC

Presenting at University of Pennsylvania's Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Thuy Nguyen, Ph.D., M.P.A.

Presenting at University of California San Francisco’s Philip Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Introducing 202527 NCSP Scholars

We are proud to welcome the 2025−27 cohort of the U-M IHPI National Clinician Scholars Program to our health services research community. The five new scholars will join us in July to begin policy-relevant research training to improve health and health care.

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Related: IHPI Clinician Scholars Community Newsletter

LEARN SOMETHING NEW

Education, training, grants, and skill-building

Help Spread the Word

Master's Degree Program in Health

The Health and Health Care Research Program at IHPI is currently accepting applications. This one-year master’s degree program (M.Sc.) is designed for clinicians who want to gain expertise in health policy, the sociocultural determinants of health, and an array of methods relevant to health services research.

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Faculty mentorship survey 

IHPI is partnering with the Rogel Cancer Center to learn more about faculty experiences as mentors and mentees at U-M. The survey will be available until Friday, December 20.

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Call for projects:

2025 IHPI/HSR Summer Student Fellowship and Internship Program 

Project Submission Deadline: Monday, January 13


The IHPI/HSR Summer Student Fellowship and Internship Program is designed to engage students with IHPI faculty members outside of their academic unit for a mutually agreed upon research project focusing on health services research, health policy, and/or racial health disparities. Awarded fellows and interns will receive a $5,000 stipend.

Submit a project

Apply now: Career development opportunities and programs

2025 MICHR/IHPI K Writing Workshop   

Deadline: January 6, 2025

Workshop Sessions: February 5, February 26, and March 19

Learn more & register

MICHR K12 Career Development Program

Deadline: January 21, 2025

Learn more & register

Recruiting faculty mentor for PEACH 

Deadline: Applications will be accepted through December 24th, 2024

Start Date: Between January 15 to February 15, 2025


The Program for Equity in Adolescent and Child Health (PEACH) seeks to add a research faculty member to serve as a mentor on equity-based research and quality improvement projects in pediatrics.

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HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE

Introduction to Writing

a Data Article


This presentation provides an introduction to data articles, what information is included in them, and how they differ from traditional journal articles.  


Interested in learning more?  

Email: mlibrary-ncrc@umich.edu

SAVE THE DATES

Events that connect and engage

2025 Early Career Faculty Development Workshop

Defining, Building & Expanding Your Career

in Health Services Research

Friday, January 31, 2025

8:30 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

NCRC Building 10, Rooms G063 & G064

Registration is required. Space is limited.


Presentations:

  • Leading with YOUR Why
  • Building Teams for Health Services Research
  • Communicating & Disseminating Your Work
  • Career Building Through Effective Mentorship
Registration Required 

IHPI Coffee Shop

January 14, 2025

9:3010:30 a.m.

NCRC, Building 16, 4th Floor

Kick off the new year with your favorite coffee shop beverage while reconnecting with your IHPI community! We'll have a mobile barista serving a full espresso bar and a variety of non-coffee drinks with decaf and non-dairy options. Stop by anytime within the noted timeframe. IHPI members' research staff are encouraged to attend as well. 

IHPI EVENTS CALENDAR

Browse seminars, lectures, and conferences, 

and catch recaps of past events 

IN THE NEWS

Our members making headlines

More virtual care does not mean more low-value care, study suggests

A new study led by Terrence Liu, M.D., M.S., NCSP scholar and a clinical instructor of internal medicine, suggests that policymakers can rest easier about one of the top worries about telehealth: that virtual care will drive up the use of tests and scans that patients do not need, wasting money and resources. In fact, the study shows that low-value care did not rise faster at primary care practices that used telehealth the most, compared with those that used it the least.

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National Poll on Healthy Aging

Grandparents help grandkids in many ways – but the reverse may be true too

A new analysis of National Poll on Healthy Aging data by a team including Kate Bauer, Ph.D., M.S., assistant professor of public health, suggests that having grandchildren and seeing them regularly may be linked to improved mental health and a reduced risk of loneliness for older adults. Grandparents in the survey who see their grandkids more often reported they were less likely to say they feel isolated.

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More from the Poll:

Refining tools that spot risk of violence in young adults in urban emergency rooms may save lives

Accounting for bias in medical data helps prevent AI from amplifying racial disparity

Recycled pacemakers function as well as new devices, international study suggests

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NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to IHPI

Beth Ammerman, D.N.P., FNP-BC

 Nursing


Abigail Bretzin, Ph.D., A.T.C.

 Emergency Medicine


Amy Buckenmeyer,

Ph.D., M.P.H., RN, 

CPNP-PC

 Nursing



Elias Dayoub, M.D., M.Sc., M.P.P.

 Internal Medicine


David Eby, Ph.D.

 Transportation Research Institute


Byron Hughes, M.D., M.P.H.

 Surgery


James Huynh, Ph.D., M.A., M.P.H.

Public Health


Sari Reisner,

Sc.D., M.A.

 Public Health


Michael

Shepherd, Ph.D.

Public Health

Marvin Solberg, Ph.D., RN

 Nursing


Elyse Thulin,

Ph.D., M.Sc.

Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention


Bingkai Wang,

Ph.D.

 Public Health

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