April 2022
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IHPI Director Dr. John Ayanian and Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer at CVS Health, discussed the challenges of mobilizing public health responses to COVID-19 in the face of profound disparities during the 2022 IHPI Director's Lecture.
Four IHPI member-led teams, chosen from many excellent proposals, will receive support for timely, policy-relevant projects that inform system-level solutions to advance health equity. Thanks to generous donor support, the awardees of the 2022 IHPI Policy Sprint initiative will receive up to $10,000 in funding, as well as guidance from the IHPI policy engagement and communications staff.
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Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy
New findings from the National Poll on Healthy Aging suggest many people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s need to do more to modify their homes or plan for services they may need if they want to avoid or delay needing to move. The poll also shows differences in aging-in-place readiness among the 28% of older adults who told the poll that they live alone.
Payal Patel
Payal K. Patel, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of internal medicine, was appointed to serve on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.
Jodyn Platt, M.P.H., Ph.D., assistant professor of learning health sciences, will provide scholarly guidance to AcademyHealth and the ABIM Foundation, advancing medical professionalism to improve health care. During her residency, she will focus on writing about emerging trust and health care issues.
Jodyn Platt
Accolades
Member achievements, awards, 
and appointments
Jeff Kullgren
Jeff Kullgren, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., associate professor of internal medicine, associate director of the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging, and research scientist at the Ann Arbor VA Center for Clinical Management Research, will become the University of Michigan Division of General Medicine Vice Chief for Research and Innovation, effective July 1, 2022.
Barbara A. Israel, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., professor of public health, was awarded the CDC Foundation's 2022 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. Israel is the founder and director of the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center.
Barbara Israel
Learn something new
Education, training, grants, and skill building
Deadline: July 1, 2022
Amount: Up to $500,000
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation supports innovative investigator-initiated research with high potential to inform improvements to the U.S. health care system. Projects must advance the existing knowledge base in the areas of health care financing, delivery, management and/or policy.
Deadline: July 15, 2022
Amount: Up to $10,000
Through a generous gift to IHPI from Lew Sandy and Sue Hassmiller, this competitive research award is designed to provide seed funding for IHPI early career faculty members to help catalyze new research.
Multiple IHPI members and senior trainees have given talks on topics related to healthy aging, or will soon do so, as part of a public online lecture series from U-M that began in January and continues through the end of May. IHPI and its National Poll on Healthy Aging are co-presenting the Art & Science of Successful Aging series, along with the Michigan Medicine Geriatrics Center and its Geriatrics Community Programs division.
assistant professor of nursing
Patrick Carter, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine
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Save the dates
Events that connect and engage
Date: May 19, 2022
Time: 1:002:30 pm ET
Join us for a webinar to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging, presented by the Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation and AARP. Distinguished national leaders will share the latest research and discuss opportunities to enhance health as we age.
Panelists:
Author, Geriatrician, and Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco
Director of Global Aging, AARP
Director of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging, U-M Chief Health Officer, and Professor of Medicine
May 11
11:00 am12:00 pm ET
May 12
10:00 am11:00 am ET
SPRING 2022 MICHIGAN HEALTH POLICY FORUM
The Health of Michigan’s Children:
COVID and Beyond
Date: May 23, 2022
Time: 1:003:30 pm ET
Keynote presenter: B. Keith English, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Human Development in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University

Registration details coming soon
Browse upcoming seminars, lectures, and conferences, and catch recaps of past events from the archives.
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Our members making headlines
A new study led by John Hollingsworth, M.D., M.S., professor of urology, and published in JAMA Health Forum, shows that Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) with higher percentages of members of racial and ethnic minority groups tended to have higher percentages of out-of-network primary care. That meant the patient’s routine care was delivered by a provider with no connection to the ACO, and therefore no potential financial benefit if they hit the quality benchmarks. 
Two new studies led by Tiffany Veinot, Ph.D., professor of information, uncover the barriers that both patients and providers face in understanding the costs for prescription medications and medical tests and the technology that could be used to close the gap.
Firearms have surpassed motor vehicles as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States according to research published in The New England Journal of Medicine by Jason Goldstick, Ph.D., research associate professor of emergency medicine, Rebecca Cunningham, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, and Patrick Carter, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine.
Research from a Michigan Medicine team led by Michael Sjoding, M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine, and published in JAMA Network Open, uncovered racial disparities in the accuracy of pulse oximeters, finding Black patients were more likely than white patients to have a discrepancy between their oxygen readings. The same team partnered with U-M C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and found Black children experienced low blood oxygen despite a normal pulse oximeter reading.
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