Nominations are now open for the annual IHPI Impact Accelerator Award. The award recognizes research that addresses pressing questions about health or healthcare quality, safety, equity, and affordability and has informed health policy and practice.

Deadline: October 30, 2020 | 5:00 p.m.

Do you share an interest in studying and innovating new approaches to workforce diversity in the healthcare sector? Please consider joining one of three IHPI Workforce Diversity in Healthcare workgroups:

The President's Office, in collaboration with the Offices of Government Relations and Vice President for Research, is seeking nominations for the President's Award for National and State Leadership and the President's Award for Public Impact.

Mi-COVID19 data is voluntarily collected from 25+ hospitals across Michigan. At each hospital, demographic data is entered for all patients tested for or charged with a discharge code for COVID-19. Depending on the number of cases per hospital, a subset of these receive a detailed abstraction of clinical information, including but not limited to medical history, testing data, laboratory information, vital signs, treatments/therapies, discharge information, and 60-day outcomes.

Deadline: December 1, 2020

University of Michigan researchers can now apply for the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation (CHRT) Policy Fellowship at U-M.
The Policy Fellowship joins selected health services researchers, state policy makers, and leaders in the nonprofit sector over four months to learn from health care experts and from each other.

John Burkhardt, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency medicine and learning health sciences at U-M Medical School, discusses how his Fulbright Scholar award will impact his future work at Michigan Medicine.

In a recent interview with Tradeoffs, a national health policy podcast, Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S., director of the U-M Telehealth Research Incubator, discusses his team's research, current trends in telehealth, and considerations about telehealth's impact on healthcare spending.

On Thursday, Sept. 17, the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Health Equity Commission hosted a webinar titled "Moving from Practice to Action: A Practical Approach to Advocacy." The panelists, including Renuka Tipirneni, M.D., M.Sc., assistant professor of internal medicine, discuss a practical framework designed to help clinicians reframe challenges in their daily practices as opportunities for health equity advocacy.

A new National Poll on Healthy Aging report authored by Antoinette Coe, Ph.D., PharmD, and Karen Farris, Ph.D., M.P.A., shows that most people over 50 haven't connected with a pharmacist to check for potential clashes among their prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, and supplements, or the potential to save money by switching to lower-cost options.

Months after they first experienced COVID-19 symptoms, 1 in 4 Michigan residents with a confirmed case of coronavirus had not fully recovered from the illness, according to a new study led by Nancy Fleischer, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of public health, that seeks to document Michiganders' experiences with the novel coronavirus.