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In This Issue
Health Policy in Action: Improving Care for Older Adults
People: Aubteen Pour-Biazar
Team Member Welcomes: Madi Cordle, Inga Morken
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Guidance for Community Care Hubs
Duke-Margolis researchers Katie Huber, Brianna Van Stekelenberg, Rebecca Whitaker, Rob Saunders, and Will Bleser, and former intern Veronica Marshall-Kirk, have co-authored a new “Community Action and Analysis Plan,” with the Cape Fear Collective, to guide community care hubs as they address unmet health-related social needs. The guide offers practical, evidence-based steps in six key areas for community care hubs nationwide to start, scale, and sustain efforts their work based on lessons learned from North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots program. Read more here.
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Addressing Mental Health Care Disparities
Research Director Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup and Postdoctoral Associate Sandra Yankah co-authored a paper in Frontiers to discuss the ethical, legal, and social implications of recent advancements in biomedical research, and leveraging real-world data to reduce disparities in mental health care. Read more here.
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Improving Care for Older Adults
Duke-Margolis researchers Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, Montgomery Smith, Catie Armstrong, and Rob Saunders, and former Policy Analyst Max Yates, co-authored a summary of recent work, “Improving Care for Older Adults Through Medicaid Innovation.” This project, done in collaboration with Health Tech for Medicaid and with support from the SCAN Foundation, identified policy opportunities and challenges to improving care for older adults in Medicaid. Learn more here.
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Advancing Global Health Care
Duke-Margolis researchers Beth Boyer, Katie Huber, Rob Saunders, and Mark McClellan co-authored a paper in Health Affairs Scholar that highlights four key action areas that members of the Future of Health, an international community of health care leaders, identified as critical to enabling the future of equitable access to health care. Read more here.
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Quality Measurement in Clinical Trials
Duke-Margolis released a meeting summary of the January 2024 event, “Building Quality into the Design and Conduct of Clinical Studies: Integrating Quality by Design (QbD) and Risk-Based Monitoring (RBM) Approaches.” Read more here.
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The Second Annual Future of Prescription Drug Promotion and Digital Marketing Meeting
September 24, 2024 | 1:00 – 3:45 p.m. ET
The pace at which new marketing technologies, trends, and venues are proliferating in the digital marketing space presents challenges and opportunities for regulators of prescription drug advertising and promotion. This second annual virtual workshop, convened under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), will explore how recent and emerging trends in this space may have bearing on public health.
Learn more and register here.
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Continual Improvement of CDER BLA Submission, Assessment, and Facility Readiness/Inspection: CMC for Biologics & Biosimilars
During this hybrid public meeting, experts from the FDA, sponsor companies, and others explored the root causes of Complete Responses (CRs) related to quality and facility issues for original and biosimilar Biologic Licensing Applications (BLAs) regulated by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. CRs can result in delayed access to treatment for patients and additional time and resource demands for FDA and sponsor companies.
Watch the recording here.
Media coverage of this event included:
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Addressing Health-Related Social Needs at Scale in Medicaid: The Past, Present, and Future of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots
Duke-Margolis and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine hosted a webinar to discuss the lessons learned during the first two years of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot program’s implementation as well as its future. The discussion featured a fireside chat with Senator Ralph Hise and Deputy Secretary for NC Medicaid Jay Ludlam. Panelists spoke to a national audience about the program’s design and launch, implementation in complex areas like housing, and future directions of the Pilots for other states and stakeholders to consider as they approach addressing health-related social needs at scale.
Watch the recording here.
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2024-2025 Margolis Scholar Cohort
We are excited to welcome our incoming Scholar cohort for the 2024-2025 academic year! Our new students come from a variety of schools and programs across Duke, representing interests in business, law, medicine, and other fields that intersect with health policy. The Margolis Scholar program is designed to provide students with the necessary experience and skills to become the next generation of health care leaders.
Learn more about our Scholars here.
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Margolis Scholar Aubteen Pour-Biazar spent this summer in the White House as an intern with the Chief of Staff’s Office. This highly competitive internship reaffirmed his commitment to address socioeconomic disparities and improve health care access, and builds on the experience and skills he has gained as a Margolis Scholar. We look forward to Aubteen’s continued growth as a leader in health policy!
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The Journal of the American Medical Association published an op-ed from Core Faculty member Barak Richman, where he discusses the policy surrounding interstate medicine and the push for physicians to offer telehealth services beyond the state in which they are licensed. Read more here. | |
Mark McClellan was quoted in an article from The Wall Street Journal regarding the Medicare drug price negotiation program and the rising tensions between drug manufacturers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Read the article here. | |
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Core Faculty member Matt Maciejewski co-authored two papers, both related to COVID-19:
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Postdoctoral Associate Kun Li received two awards, both competitive pilot grants that will fund her future work focused on care delivery for Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease:
Kun also co-authored a paper in the Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology to study visual and hearing impairments in older adults and the association with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Read the authors’ findings here.
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Madi Cordle joins Duke-Margolis as a Policy Research Assistant on the Biomedical Innovation team. She primarily supports the Institute's work in digital health and artificial intelligence, and quality assurance within the drug supply chain. As an undergraduate, Madi conducted research on a broad range of topics including energy policy in South American countries, red tide risk communication, and the relationship between poverty and health outcomes. She recently graduated from the University of Florida with a BA in economics and English, where her community engagement experience and coursework inspired her interest in health policy research.
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Inga Morken is joining the Health Care Transformation team as a Policy Research Assistant, where she will initially focus on Medicare projects related to specialty payment models and will support CMMI’s Regional Learning work for Making Care Primary. She recently completed her Bachelor of Science in Public Health at UNC Gillings, where she spent time as a research consultant in both the Emergency Department and School of Pharmacy. Inga also has spent time with various non-profits focused on partner violence, connecting patients to health insurance, and health equity, and is actively involved in Young Life!
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