SEPTEMBER 2024

NEWS TO NOTE

Timely news and information

2024 Sandy-Hassmiller Early Career Health Services Research Awardees

This competitive research award is designed to provide seed funding for IHPI early career faculty members to help catalyze new research or support new innovations in ongoing research.

Tyler G. James, Ph.D., M.S.

Misclassification Bias in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Patient Cohort Development

Terrence Liu, M.D., M.S.

Utilization of Patient Portal Messaging in Managing Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study

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2024 Policy Sprint Awardees

Three teams led by members of IHPI will receive 2024 Policy Sprint awards to support timely, policy-relevant projects with the potential to inform decision-making at the state and national level. The selected projects, chosen from many excellent proposals, will address gaps in knowledge related to Medicaid expansion and buprenorphine use, cost-sharing for patient portal messaging, and private equity acquisitions of healthcare entities. 

James Dupree, M.D., M.P.H.

Evaluating State Policy Landscapes and Private Equity Acquisitions of Fertility Clinics

Terrence Liu, M.D., M.S. &

Tammy Chang, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.

Utilization of Patient Portal Messaging in Managing Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed Methods Study

Jeffrey McCullough, Ph.D.

Can North Carolina's Medicaid Expansion Reverse the Adverse Effects of Medicaid Unwinding and Buprenorphine Use?

Early Career Faculty Development Opportunity

Emerging Scholars Exchange Program

Deadline: Friday, October 4, 2024

IHPI is pleased to announce a call for applications for the 2024-2025 Emerging Scholars Exchange Program to provide career development opportunities via invited presentations. Two Emerging Scholars from IHPI will be selected to give a presentation at one of our partner institutions: the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute and the University of California San Francisco Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Selected speakers will be notified by November 30, 2024.

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OUR EXPERTS

Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy


Gearhardt and Janke provide their expertise to the US House and Oregon State Senate

This month, U-M professor of Psychology Ashley Gearhardt, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.S., testified before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee and highlighted the addictive nature of highly processed foods, noting that food manufacturers have utilized the same tools as nicotine companies to increase addiction to their products.

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Clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine Alexander Janke, M.D., M.H.S., M.Sc., testified virtually at a hearing of the Interim Committee on Health Care of the State Senate of Oregon about emergency department boarding. Janke, whose research during his time as a National Clinician Scholar at IHPI included studies of emergency department wait times and boarding (waiting for admission), used data from that work and from Oregon's own public reporting sources to inform legislators about the issue. 

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Piatt appointed chair of Department

of Learning Health Sciences

Gretchen A. Piatt, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of learning health sciences, was appointed chair of the Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS) in the U-M Medical School, effective September 1.

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Piatt

Muzik and Weaver awarded

OVPR anti-racism grants

Maria Muzik, M.D., M.S., professor of psychiatry, and Addie Weaver, Ph.D., M.P.A., M.S.W., associate professor of social work, are part of research teams named to receive grant funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) to advance knowledge in areas related to anti-racism. Their funded research topics will include peripartum health care equality, uneven disciplinary actions in early childhood education, and the disproportionate negative effect of artificial intelligence on Black artists.

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Muzikt

Weaver

LEARN SOMETHING NEW

Education, training, grants, and skill-building

Provost's Office Initiative to Promote Disability Scholarship: Request for proposals

Deadline: October 21, 2024

The Office of the Provost is soliciting proposals to support the pursuit of new scholarship aimed to better understand and address concerns of faculty and staff on the Ann Arbor campus who have a disability. Awards will be announced in January, 2025.

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NIH Loan Repayment Programs Award

Open through November 21, 2024

October 7 webinar with more information

Applications for the NIH Extramural LRP are open and awards are up to $100,000 in repayment of your qualified educational loan debt over a two-year LRP award period.

Learn About the Program

HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE

Engagement ModuleOverton Database


The Engage Module in Overton Policy Database, currently in beta and rapidly growing, allows you to explore policy engagement opportunities in the United States and beyond. research guide pro. 


Interested in learning more?  

Email: mlibrary-ncrc@umich.edu

SAVE THE DATES

Events that connect and engage

Connect with your IHPI community

October 8: Coffee & Donuts

10:00–10:30 a.m.


October 22: Popcorn Break

2:00–2:30 p.m.


NCRC, Building 16, 4th Floor Kitchen

2800 Plymouth Road

Harvesting Hope: A Decade of Cultivating Well-Being in Black Men and Boys

October 9-11, 2024

U-M Michigan League

IHPI is a proud sponsor of this three-day event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the YBMen Project.

RSVP Required

IHPI EVENTS CALENDAR

Browse seminars, lectures, and conferences, 

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IN THE NEWS

Our members making headlines

NATIONAL POLL ON HEALTHY AGING

Cannabis and older adults: Poll shows current use patterns, beliefs and risks

Among people age 50 and up, 21% said they used a form of cannabis that contains the psychoactive compound THC at least once in the past year, according to new findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging



Erin E. Bonar, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry, who worked with the poll team on the report, says the findings suggest a need for action at the policy, clinical, and community levels to identify those who may need treatment for cannabis addiction and to discourage driving or other risky behaviors after consumption.

Read the Michigan Findings 
Read the National Report

New law regulating out-of-pocket drug spending saves cancer patients more than $7,000 a year

A U-M study finds that efforts to cap prescription drug spending are yielding significant out-of-pocket savings for patients.

Researchers led by Kristian Stensland, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., assistant professor of urology, used the online Medicare Part D Plan Finder tool to assess how much patients were paying for the most commonly prescribed oral chemotherapies. The study is published in JAMA Network Open and was funded by a Policy Sprint award from IHPI.

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Stensland

Covid-19 hits older adults hardest. Will they want the updated vaccine?

A newly updated COVID-19 vaccine is in pharmacies and clinics nationwide, and a new National Poll on Healthy Aging suggests nearly half of people age 50 and older plan to get it. But some older adults with high risk of severe illness appear unlikely to seek the vaccine, and interest varies widely by age group, education level, race and ethnicity, and other factors, the poll shows. 

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Conversations between clinicians and their patients about firearms could save lives

Black stroke patients arrive later to hospitals, EMS less likely to notify


New RSV vaccine for older adults can result in individual and societal cost savings, benefits

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NEW MEMBERS

Welcome to IHPI

Micah Aaron,

Ph.D., M.P.H.

 Public Health

Rachel Bachrach, Ph.D.

Psychiatry

Jonathan Cunha, M.D., M.S.

Surgery

Autumn Rae Florimbio, Ph.D.

 Psychiatry

Angela Fong, Ph.D.

Kinesiology

Lana Garmire,

Ph.D.

Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics

Alexis Handal, Ph.D., M.P.H.

 Public Health

Ryan Howard,

M.D., M.S.

Surgery

Adam Markovitz, M.D., Ph.D.

Internal Medicine

Grace Noppert, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A.

 Institute for Social Research

David Odell, M.D., M.M.Sc.

Surgery

Versha Pleasant, M.D., M.P.H.

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Ivy Wei, D.D.S., Ph.D., M.S.

 Dentistry

Douglas Wiebe, Ph.D.

Emergency Medicine

Victoria Wytiaz, M.D., M.A.

Internal Medicine

Pratyusha Yalamanchi, M.D., M.B.A.

 OtolaryngologyHead & Neck Surgery


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