AcademyHealth focuses on broadly relevant issues, including health care costs, quality, and access. As such, our work regularly captures the attention of national, state, and local media. In 2003, our programs and meetings generated coverage in a variety of outlets, ranging from major national newspapers to local television news affiliates to articles and Web casts produced through trade press and health care foundations.

Our National Health Policy Conference, held January 22-23 in Washington, D.C. and intended to provide a timely look at critical health policy issues, garnered the most press last year. At that event, Louisiana Senator John Breaux (D) unveiled a new policy proposal to reach universal health care coverage in the United States. The story was covered by the Associated Press, Gannett News Service, Kiplinger Business Forecasts, Managed Care Weekly Digest, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and others.

The 2003 Annual Research Meeting in Nashville, which featured a keynote speech by Senate Majority Leader William Frist, M.D., also drew media attention, with portions of the talk broadcast by the CBS affiliate in Nashville.

Each year, our two Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-sponsored programs—Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) and State Coverage Initiatives (SCI)—address relevant research and policy issues that are covered by the press. In 2003, HCFO’s work on end-of-life care, consumer-driven health care, and mental health disparities was highlighted by Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, Managed Care Weekly Digest, and American HealthLine, among others. Meanwhile, SCI’s expertise on insurance markets and health care coverage issues was tapped by MSNBC News, BNA’s Health Care Policy Report, and various local newspapers.

Complete List of 2003 Media Clips