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.

Bell named NIH climate and health scholar

Sue Anne Bell, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAAN, associate professor of nursing, was named a 2024-2025 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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Cohn and Gamarel recognized for work in data and health 

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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.

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.

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.