JUNE 2024

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IHPS at AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Come check out the work of IHPS researchers at the 2024 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting June 29-July 2, 2024, Baltimore, MD. Full schedule here - IHPS researchers in bold.

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IHPS FACULTY SPOTLIGHT

Tracy Lin, PhD

Tracy Kuo Lin, PhD, MSc is an Assistant Professor of Health Economics in the Institute for Health & Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also affiliated with the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UCSF and the Middle East Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Her research interests center on health system financing and resource allocation around the world. The primary objective of her research is to formulate and implement strategies to enhance care while incorporating patient preference, containing the cost, and maximizing coverage.

CURRENT ISSUES

Access to Contraception

In a recent New York Times article, Senator Bernie Sanders called on a government watchdog group to to investigate why insurance companies are still charging women for birth control, a practice that could limit access for millions of women. The Affordable Care Act mandated that all contraception be provided without cost. Several IHPS researchers study contraception access, with recent work by Cynthia Harper, PhD and Jennifer Yarger, PhD on the use of telemedicine and insurance differences in accessing contraceptive care.

UPCOMING EVENTS

From Bench to Bill: The Story of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act

IHPS Health Policy Grand Rounds

Dorry Segev, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery and Population Health and Vice Chair of Surgery

Founding Director, NYU Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research

New York University

Sep 4, 2024, 12 - 1 pm PT

480 16th Street, Room 208 (Jade)

Zoom on request

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Mental Health Needs, Barriers, and Receipt of Care Among Transgender and Nonbinary Adolescents, published by Samira Soleimanpour, PhD, and colleagues in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Why We Struggle to Make Progress in Obesity Prevention and How We Might Overcome Policy Inertia: Lessons from the Complexity and Political Sciences, published by Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, Luc Hagenaars, PhD and colleagues, in Obesity Reviews.

What do Patients and Families Observe About Pediatric Safety?: A Thematic Analysis of Real-time Narratives, published by Naomi Bardach, MD and colleagues in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

In the Know: A Cluster Randomized Trial of an In-person Sexual Health Education Program Integrating Digital Technologies for Adolescents, published by Jennifer Yarger, PhD, Natasha Borgen, Mara Decker, DrPH and colleagues in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Comparison of health and retirement study participants with and without linkage to Medicare claims, published by John Boscardin, PhD and Matthew Miller, DPT, PhD and colleagues in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

More IHPS Faculty Research

MEDIA MENTIONS

Dan Ciccarone:

Fentanyl residue may increase overdoses, UCSF doctor says

(ABC 7 News)

Janet Coffman:

California Poised to Slash Health Care Workforce Funding Amid Labor Shortages

(KQED)

Renee Hsia:

Have Good Health Insurance? Too Bad. You Could Still Get A $250,000 Bill

(Forbes)

Thank you to all who attended the 2024 UCSF Health Services Research Symposium on May 23, 2024! Mark your calendars for the 2025 Symposium on April 29, 2025!

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Philip R. Lee Fellowship Fund Endowed

Since its founding 50 years ago, IHPS has been dedicated to training the next generation of leaders in interdisciplinary research to solve our most important health policy issues. In celebration of our 50th anniversary and to honor our founders, Phil Lee and Lew Butler, we established an endowment fund for the Philip R. Lee Fellowship. We are pleased to announce the fund has been endowed! We hope to continue to keep this fund and our fellowship program robust.

Photo: Kim Felder Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH & Fellow for 2007-2008 with Philip R. Lee, MD, Founder of the Institute for Health Policy Studies