For the 2016/2017 application cycle, AcademyHealth and partners sought proposals on the following research topics:
General Health Services Research
AcademyHealth defines Health Services Research as the multidisciplinary field of scientific investigation that studies how social factors, financing systems, organizational structures and processes, health technologies, and personal behaviors affect access to health care, the quality and cost of health care, and ultimately our health and well-being. Its research domains are individuals, families, organizations, institutions, communities, and populations. Acceptable projects include those on:
- Improvement science, implementation science, and health care delivery science research
- Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods
Combatting Low Value Care
(funded by Altarum Institute)
- Investigates reducing low value care in a population with employer-based insurance with particular interest in low and middle-income employees
- Investigates employer and employee perspectives, priorities, and barriers to reducing low value care
- Investigates employer or employer/insurer initiatives to reduce low value care
- Priority will be given to proposals that include a deliverable that is likely to be published in a peer-reviewed journal
Medicaid Managed Care
(funded by Association for Community Affiliated Plans)
- Addresses the benefits of Medicaid managed care for low income populations
- Consideration will also be given to proposals that examine managed care for individuals dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid
- Consideration will also be given to proposals that examine the interface between Medicaid managed care and subsidized Marketplace coverage for people with low incomes
- Priority will be given to proposals that include a deliverable that is likely to be published in a peer-reviewed journal
Maternal and Child Health
(funded by March of Dimes)
- Investigates the effect of federal, state and local policies/programs on perinatal health outcomes for women of childbearing age, infants and children
- Analyses of access to care, the scope of health insurance coverage, and quality of care for women of childbearing age, infants, and children
- Investigates how the changing health care delivery system affects perinatal outcomes for women of childbearing age, infants, and children, including the effects of the Affordable Care Act
- Investigates other maternal and child health policy issues with an emphasis on perinatal outcomes, such as tobacco cessation for pregnant women, WIC, birth defects prevention and surveillance, and environmental health