Payment Reform for Population Health
With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, AcademyHealth is leading the Payment Reform for Population Health initiative to examine the opportunities through which the payment system can support population health.
PCOR Analysis, Synthesis and Reporting
Patient and consumer engagement in health and health care is increasingly seen as a vital to the research process, and to improving the performance of the health care system. Since 2012, AcademyHealth has worked with the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute on a variety of initiatives.
Policy-Relevant Insurance Studies
Public Health Systems Research
AcademyHealth’s public and population health portfolio offers training, scholarships and resources for researchers, facilitates connections with policymakers, and stimulates discussions around the challenges and opportunities faced by the evolving public health system – from organization and financing to delivery and impact.
Registry of Patient Registries
Patient registries offer significant opportunities for conducting clinical research.
Research in Transforming Health and Health Care Systems
This Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant program, managed by AcademyHealth, funds rigorous, empirical studies that evaluate or predict the potential effects of policies or policy changes intended to transform health and health care systems.
Research Insights
The aim of public and private funders of health services research is not only to support studies on the health care system and health care services, but also to disseminate results to policymakers.
Special Topic Research Programs
The most effective health care policy is informed by objective, rigorous evidence. For 25 years, AcademyHealth served as the national program office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization (HCFO) grantmaking initiative and continues to manage special topic solicitations for the Foundation covering a broad array of topics.
State Health Policy and Technical Assistance
AcademyHealth has a long history of working with state policymakers and health services researchers to support evidence-based decision making at the state level.