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NEWS TO NOTE
Timely news and information
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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. | | |
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. | | |
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Jeffrey McCullough, Ph.D.
Can North Carolina's Medicaid Expansion Reverse the Adverse Effects of Medicaid Unwinding and Buprenorphine Use?
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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
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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. | | |
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. | | |
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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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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LEARN SOMETHING NEW
Education, training, grants, and skill-building
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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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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.
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SAVE THE DATES
Events that connect and engage
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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
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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.
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IN THE NEWS
Our members making headlines
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NATIONAL POLL ON HEALTHY AGING
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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.
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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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NEW MEMBERS
Welcome to IHPI
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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.
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