AcademyHealth Senior Director Megan Collado reflects on the culmination of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported program, Understanding and Supporting Anchor Businesses to Build a Culture of Health, managed by AcademyHealth, including what we’ve learned from the research and from key business and other stakeholders that were convened to better understand the impact of business’ place-based investments on health, well-being, and equity.

Dr. Kevin Frick reflects on how he has continued to promote a more inclusive, equitable culture in HSR through storytelling.

The second post in our Weitzman Institute blog series on conducting health equity research during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights challenges and lessons learned in building rapport and authentically engaging with patients in a virtual research environment.

The techniques, focus, and skills of health service researchers is key as federal programs and health systems identify and administer treatments for Long COVID. As Long COVID continues to disproportionately harm populations that are already suffering from health disparities, poorly designed or targeted dissemination efforts could worsen this health outcome gap.

This post is the first in the Health Equity Research Beyond COVID-19 Series, which highlights lessons learned when conducting research with marginalized and vulnerable communities during the pandemic, and implications for how to ensure the way in which we go about doing research is patient- and community-affirming.

An upcoming members-only event will showcase expert panelists as they discuss the state of Long-Term Services and Support program design and the best way to infuse equity into your work.

This month's "Read on Washington," available only to AcademyHealth members, includes updates on the FY23 omnibus appropriations bill, ARPA-H's reauthorization, new recommendations from MedPAC, and more.

An upcoming webinar will provide information about a 2023 call for proposals designed in partnership with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support research on pre-hospital diagnostic delay.

Richard Baron, President and CEO of the ABIM Foundation and Lisa Simpson, President and CEO of AcademyHealth work to build understanding of the relationship between trust and susceptibility to misinformation, as outlined in a recent Health Affairs Forefront article.