FEATURE STORIES

Lowering Barriers to Medication Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Our latest Issue Brief analyzes the evidence around "low-threshold" approaches to improving access to effective medications for opioid

use disorder.

Family and Friends are the Invisible Workforce in Long-term Care 

In Health Affairs, Norma Coe and Rachel M. Werner find that family and friends provide more than a “shift” of care every week in nursing homes and two “shifts” in assisted living facilities, on average.

Busting Myths About the Asian American "Model Minority”

In two studies, Lan Ðoàn and Lola Fayanju debunk the myth that Asian Americans are a “model minority” with superior income, education, and health, and call for disaggregating data on this diverse group.

Critical Access Hospitals are Still Struggling 

Paula Chatterjee, Rachel M. Werner, and Karen Joynt Maddox analyze the effects of Medicaid expansion on critical access hospitals, finding that expansion alone did not remedy the financial and staffing challenges these hospitals face.

The Pandemic Did Not Delay Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients

Patients newly diagnosed with advanced cancer had no treatment delays or changes during the pandemic, according to research by Ravi Parikh, Sam Takvorian,

and colleagues.

EVENTS

Reforming Primary Care for a 21st Century Health Care System

Friday, February 4
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Seminar with Patrick Conway, MD, Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Linda A. McCauley, PhD, RN, J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, and Ellen-Marie Whelan, PhD. Moderated by Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD.

An Action Plan for Reducing Opioid Deaths 

Friday, March 4
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Seminar with Ricky Bluthenthal, PhD, Keith Humphreys, PhD, and Regina LaBelle, JD. Moderated by Shoshana Aronowitz, PhD, MSHP.

Co-sponsored with the Center for Health Economics of Treatment Interventions for Substance Use Disorder, HCV, and HIV (CHERISH)

Research Seminar with Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD

Friday, March 18
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET

Co-sponsored with the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE)

Addressing Structural Racism in Medicaid to Promote Health Equity

Friday, April 15
12:00–1:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Seminar with Cara James, PhD, Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, and Emma Sandoe, PhD, MPH. Moderated by Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD.

IN THE MEDIA

“Pharmacies Shouldn’t Be the Only Place to Get Paxlovid, the New COVID Pill.” Holly Fernandez Lynch, STAT

“It’s Time for Pa. to Stop Allowing Overdose Deaths To Be Treated Like Homicides.” Shoshana Aronowitz, Rachel E. French, Rebecca Arden Harris, and David Mandell, Philadelphia Inquirer

“In Philly, Most Families Pay More Than $10,000 Per Year For Infant Child Care. This Has to Change.” Yuan He, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Nurses and the Never-Ending Shifts.” Linda Aiken, NPR

“An ER Doc Says Separate COVID-19 Clinics Should Be Set Up to Allow Overstretched ERs to Focus Only on Emergency Cases.” Mucio Kit Delgado, Insider

PUBLICATIONS

“Delivering Urgent Care Using Telemedicine: Insights from Experienced Clinicians at Academic Medical Centers.” Natalie Laub, Anish K. Agarwal, Catherine Shi, Arianna Sjamsu, Krisda Chaiyachati. Journal of General Internal Medicine

“Inequities in Chlamydia Trachomatis Screening Between Black and White Adolescents in a Large Pediatric Primary Care Network, 2015-2019.” Sarah Wood, Jungwon Min, Vicky Tam, Julia Pickel, Danielle Petsis, Kenisha Campbell. American Journal of Public Health

“Economic Considerations in Access to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.” Kriyana P. Reddy, Peter W. Groeneveld, Jay Giri, Alexander C. Fanaroff, Ashwin S. Nathan. Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

“Supportive Environments During the Substance use Disorder Epidemic in the Rural United States: Provider Support for Interventions and Expectations of Interactions With Providers.” Thomas C. O'Brien, Judith Feinberg, Robert Gross, Dolores Albarracín. Social Science & Medicine

“Patient Perspectives on States Worse than Death: A Qualitative Study with Implications for Patient-centered Outcomes and Values Elicitation.” Catherine L. Auriemma, Helen O'Donnell, Julia Jones, Zoe Barbati, Eda Akpek, Tamar Klaiman, Scott D. Halpern. Palliative Medicine

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