March 2018 Edition
 
Strengthening partnerships for better health

IHPI was honored to welcome U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams to the University of Michigan for a full day of engagement with our campus community on March 22.

When he assumed office last September, Dr. Adams pledged to address our nation's public health challenges through better partnerships, by strengthening established relationships as well as reaching out to less traditional collaborators.

During his visit to U-M, Dr. Adams emphasized this theme in roundtable discussions with students from across U-M, with faculty working to address opioid misuse, and with business leaders concerned with Michigan's health and economy.

During the Fourth Annual IHPI Director's Lecture that afternoon, Dr. Adams and I had a fantastic "fireside chat" about his priorities as Surgeon General, followed by a panel discussion with Detroit Health Department Director Joneigh S. Khaldun and IHPI members Rebecca Cunningham and Chad Brummett, and the afternoon concluded with a moving musical performance by U-M students.



If you were unable to attend the Director's Lecture, please view the video (below) and read through the Twitter activity from the day.


IHPI is built upon the understanding that partnerships and collaboration are essential for achieving meaningful change in health and healthcare.

Examples of IHPI-supported initiatives that depend on diverse partnerships include:
  • The Detroit Community Health Worker project, working toward sustainable models for improving health in Detroit, in partnership with community organizations, Medicaid health plans, and the Detroit Health Department
  • The Michigan OPEN program, a preventive approach to ending the opioid epidemic by working with networks of providers across Michigan, in partnership with communities across the state, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
  • The Healthy Michigan Plan evaluation, conducted by an interdisciplinary team of 15 IHPI faculty members from 5 U-M schools, in partnership with MDHHS
  • The Michigan Program on Value Enhancement, focused on rigorously improving value in healthcare, in partnership with Michigan Medicine
  • The National Poll on Healthy Aging, working to understanding policy-relevant healthcare needs and values of older adults in partnership with AARP and Michigan Medicine
We continue to embrace new and unconventional partners in our research and in our practice and policy engagement, to ensure that our work is inclusive of stakeholders across the healthcare spectrum, including patients, families, and communities.

John Z. Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P.
 
Gupta Family Hackathon spurs health communication innovation

On a Friday afternoon, they were complete strangers.

By Sunday afternoon, they had created 30 new solutions to real-world problems related to health communication, from apps and websites to devices and electronic medical record innovations. Four of those ideas emerged as winners, but all hold the potential to keep moving forward toward real-world application.



The frenzy of innovative activity, lasting late into Saturday night, happened as part of the first-ever Gupta Family Hackathon for Health Communication.

Organized by IHPI with support from U-M alumni Sanjay Gupta, M.D., and his wife Rebecca, the event brought together more than 120 students and professionals from U-M and other higher-education institutions, as well as community members. Two dozen U-M faculty members and business leaders offered their time over the weekend as expert mentors.

 
 
U-M tops research universities for Fulbrights---- Grazier, Harlow, and Strobbe among scholars

U-M faculty scholars received 12 Fulbright grants for the 2017 - 18 academic year ---- the most of any research university in the nation. IHPI members include:
 
 
Remembering Jean Malouin

It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and IHPI member Jean M. Malouin, M.D., M.P.H., who died unexpectedly March 10 from medical causes.

A faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine since 1994, she maintained a family medicine continuity practice at Briarwood Family Medicine for more than 20 years, specializing in women's health and care of transgendered patients.

Malouin
 
 
Zivin receives MIP Scholars Award

Kara Zivin, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., associate professor of psychiatry, is a 2018 recipient of the Eisenberg Michigan Mental Health Integration Partnership (MIP) Scholars Award. The MIP Scholars Award supports U-M faculty implementing and evaluating mental health services that promote integrated care and seek to improve access to evidence-based practices for lower income and Medicaid eligible populations with behavioral health care needs in the state of Michigan. 

 
Zivin
 
 
Lantz elected to National Academy of Social Insurance

Paula Lantz, Ph.D., professor of public policy and health management and policy, was among 52 distinguished social insurance experts elected to the National Academy of Social Insurance. The Academy recognizes individuals who have distinguished themselves by improving the quality of research, administration, or policymaking in an area of social insurance.

 
Lantz
 
New Members
 
 
Hamid Ghanbari, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical School

My research is focused on building systems that allow patients to record and interpret the effect of chronic disease on their daily lives. These systems will allow physicians to focus on building an accurate and personalized management plan for patients with chronic diseases.

VIEW PROFILE
 
  EVENTS
IHPI Seminar Series: Precision health, big data, and evidence-based medicine---- contradictions or companions?

Date: April 19, 2018
Time: 4:00 p.m. --- 5:00 p.m.
Location: NCRC, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker: John P.A. Ioannidis, M.D., D.Sc, professor of medicine, health research and policy, biomedical data science, and statistics, Stanford University
WEBSITE
Reception and networking to immediately follow the presentation

There is a lot of interest in promoting precision health. Big data are offering an opportunity for fresh approaches to generating and interpreting evidence in the setting of precision health. The lecture will argue that the personalization that is inherent in precision health is entirely within the remit and standards of evidence-based medicine. Both precision health and big data will be assessed through the viewpoint of evidence-based medicine, to try to understand their strengths and limitations and to understand how they can eventually offer useful information.

The IHPI Research Seminar Series is a lecture-based program designed to share innovative health services research topics, studies, and programs, with clinicians, faculty, research staff, and students from a variety of disciplines.

To record CME activity, visit  www.umhscme.com using the following program ID: IHPI Research Seminar Series ---- 05182
 
 
Policy Talks @ the Ford School: The Affordable Care Act---- Where do we go from here?

Dates: April 4, 2018
Times: 4:00 --- 5:30 p.m.
Location: Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall at 735 S. State St., Ann Arbor
Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check the event listing just before the event for viewing details.

Panelists will include:
  • Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Economist and Senior Fellow at Project HOPE
  • Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at HuffPost
  • John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., Alice Hamilton Collegiate Professor of Medicine; Professor of Internal Medicine; Professor of Health Management and Policy; Director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation; and Professor of Public Policy at the U-M Ford School
Moderator: Paula Lantz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Public Policy at the U-M Ford School
 
 
Leveraging smartphones and behavioral economics for preventing unintentional injury and overdoses

Dates: April 12, 2018
Times: 9:00 --- 10:00 a.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex, Building 10, Research Auditorium
Speaker:   M. Kit Delgado, M.D., M.S., FACEP , University of Pennsylvania: IHPI's first visiting Emerging Scholar.
 
Please join us as we host  M. Kit Delgado, M.D., M.S., FACEP , University of Pennsylvania as IHPI's first visiting Emerging Scholar. This talk will cover a series of ongoing studies using smartphone-enabled behavioral economic interventions for: 1) preventing motor vehicle crashes from distracted and alcohol-impaired driving; and 2) preventing excessive opioid prescribing for acute and post-operative pain. 
 
 
 
National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy: Everything you need to know

Dates: April 19, 2018
Times: 9:00 --- 10:30 a.m.
Location: Taubman Health Sciences Library, Room 4360

The workshop will begin by examining what the policy says and to whom it pertains. We will examine each of the steps required to comply with the policy, from grant preparation to the Research Performance Progress Report (RPPR).
 
 
2018 CBSSM Research Colloquium---- University of Michigan

Date: May 1, 2018
Time: 9:00 a.m. --- 2:00 p.m.
Location: Michigan League, 911 N. University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, Henderson Room
Speaker: Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., professor of bioethics and medical anthropology, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco

The CBSSM Research Colloquium will feature the Bishop Lecture in Bioethics as the keynote address. Barbara Koenig, Ph.D., will present the Bishop Lecture with a talk entitled: "Does Enhancing Individual Choice and Control Promote Freedom? Challenges in Contemporary Bioethics."
 
 
Large-Scale Grants Town Hall with George A. Mashour, M.D., Ph.D.

Date: May 1, 2018
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Location: Danto Auditorium, 425 Ann St., Ann Arbor, MI

If you are interested in tackling complex research questions using a cross-disciplinary approach, you will learn about resources that can support you in pursuing external, large-scale grant funding.

Competitive large-scale grants, particularly NIH U- and P-series awards, are characterized by integrated and strategic research team visions that leverage collaborative partnerships. Obtaining large-scale grant funding has far-reaching benefits for the awardee, the research team, and the institution. To encourage the pursuit of large-scale grants, MICHR has developed a comprehensive plan of support that is available to faculty across the university.
 
 
U-M Injury Prevention Center: Summit on the Prevention of Campus Sexual Assault

Date: May 2, 2018
Time: 8:00 a.m. --- 5:30 p.m.
Location: Rackham Graduate School

This inclusive professional development event is for practitioners in the sexual assault field (physicians, social workers, psychologists, and other public health professionals), as well as researchers, faculty, and campus stakeholders (including students).

Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, the President of the Association of American Universities, will deliver the keynote presentation, which will be followed by outstanding presentations by leading experts in the field of campus sexual assault prevention.

The deadline for submitting abstracts for the poster session has been extended until Friday, April 6, 2018.
 
 
Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research Symposium

Date: May 10, 2018
Time: 9:00 a.m. --- 1:00 p.m.
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), Building 18, Dining Hall

Dr. David Marrero, director of the University of Arizona Health Sciences, will deliver the keynote presentation at MCDTR's annual symposium.

Participants are also encouraged to present posters in the area of diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic disorders at this symposium.

 
 
4th Annual U-M Leadership Summit for Women in Academic Medicine and Healthcare

Date: June 8, 2018
Time: 7:30 a.m. --- 5:30 p.m.

This summit is a rare opportunity for women across the nation to focus on their professional development. The only event of its kind, the summit focuses specifically on advancing women leaders in their careers in healthcare and academic medicine. Join 400+ women for a day of learning, growth, and inspiration.
 
 

 
Attend the 2018 Annual Research Meeting  - The Largest Meeting of Health Services  Researchers and Policy Analysts
 

AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting (ARM), the premier forum for health services research (HSR), convenes the foremost experts at the intersection of health, health care, and policy to share important findings and showcase the latest research on how the health system works, what it costs, and how to improve it.
 
 
 
Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR)

Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) provides consulting services and training opportunities in statistics, data science, and advanced research computation to researchers in all fields, regardless of skill level.

Free consulting is available to all U-M researchers; workshops are open to all members of the U-M community. Visit the CSCAR website for additional information, and to schedule individual consultation sessions. Questions can be directed to [email protected].
 
 
MLibrary @NCRC

Highlighted resource: PolicyMap

This online data and mapping tool provides access to an extensive data collection, with 15,000+ indicators used to understand communities. Allows you to visualize large amounts of data quickly and easily, often down to the census tract or block group level. Categories include demographics, income and spending, housing, lending activity, quality of life, economy, education, health, federal guidelines, and other analyses.

Interested in learning more?
Contact MLibrary.
Visit: Building 18, Room G018
 
Advancing the profession and sustainability of community health workers

A new issue brief published by the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) and authored by IHPI members Edith C. Kieffer Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of social work, and Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A., executive director of CHRT, focuses on the ways State Innovation Model (SIM) grants have helped regions across the nation integrate community health workers into their healthcare systems. The brief enumerates the challenges states and health systems will need to overcome as they seek to develop a sustainable revenue stream for this work, to advance the community health worker profession, and to amplify the impact.

 
Three recent JAMA Viewpoint articles published 

IHPI members recently authored three Journal of the American Medical Association Viewpoint articles. All three articles were published on March 20, 2018.


Lona Mody, MD, MSc; Laraine Washer, MD; Scott Flanders, MD

 
 
MORE NEWS


Michigan falls short in frontline treatment for opioid crisis
( Bridge Magazine --- Lagisetty, Bohnert)
Some breast cancer patients missing out on genetic counseling
( U-M Health Lab --- Katz, Hawley, Wallner)
The Surprising Effect of Social Connections on Eye Health
( Michigan Medicine --- Stagg, Ehrlich, Woodward)
 
  FUNDING
Research Stimulus Funding Opportunity

Award: Up to $35,000
Application Due Dates: April 6, 2018 and June 15, 2018
Notice of Awards: April 23, 2018 and June 29, 2018

The Research Stimulus is a new U-M Medical School funding opportunity intended to foster synergistic and productive connections among faculty around common areas of basic, clinical, or translational research interests.

Up to $35,000 is available to facilitate the formation of a new research interest group to coalesce around a research theme or for an existing group to initiate new lines of investigation or take an existing unfunded idea to the next level.
 
 
W.T. Grant seeks work on reducing inequality

Deadline: May 18, 2018
Award Amount: $100,000 -- $600,000 over 2 -- 3 years for grants on reducing inequality and $100,000 -- $1,000,000 over 2 -- 4 years for grants on improving research evidence
WEBSITE

The foundation seeks research on reducing inequality in youth ages 5 -- 25, focusing on barriers to success in academic, social (including mental health), behavioral and economic realms. Strong proposals will clearly demonstrate the link between a form of inequality and youth outcomes. The foundation also seeks projects that will help to improve the use of evidence in policy and practice.

 
 
Russell Sage Foundation: The Social, Economic, and Political Effects of the Affordable Care Act

Deadline: August 20, 2018
Award Amount: $150,000

This Russell Sage Foundation initiative will support innovative social science research on the social, economic, and political effects of the Affordable Care Act. They are especially interested in funding analyses that address important questions about the effects of the reform on outcomes such as financial security and family economic well-being, labor supply and demand, participation in other public programs, family and children's outcomes, and differential effects by age, race, ethnicity, nativity, or disability status. They are also interested in research that examines the political effects of the implementation of the new law, including changes in views about government, support for future government policy changes, or the impact on policy development outside of health care.
 
ABOUT IHPI

The Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation is committed to improving the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of healthcare services

To carry out our ambitious mission, our efforts are focused in four areas:

  • Evaluating the impact of healthcare reforms
  • Improving the health of communities
  • Promoting greater value in healthcare
  • Innovating in IT and healthcare delivery

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CONTACT US

U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
North Campus Research Complex (NCRC)
2800 Plymouth Road, Building 16
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Eileen Kostanecki
IHPI  Director, Policy Engagement and External Relations
[email protected]
202-554-0578

Christina Camilli-Whisenhunt
IHPI Communications Manager
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Kara Gavin
IHPI Research & Policy Media Relations Manager
 
Lauren Hutchens
IHPI Communications Specialist

Mark Lubin
IHPI Communications Coordinator