APRIL 2024

NEWS TO NOTE

Time-sensitive information

New national EHR data source

available to IHPI members

IHPI is one of the first academic institutions to partner with Truveta, a company that provides access to data based on electronic health records from millions of patients. Truveta's portal includes full EHR data collected from clinician notes, images, and structured data from more than 30 health systems, linked with claims, social determinants of health, and mortality data. The daily updated data represent more than 100 million de-identified patients with all types of insurance, from more than 800 hospitals and 20,000 clinics across the U.S. 

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OUR EXPERTS

Groundbreaking research, innovation, and intellectual energy


Broglio, Ellimoottil receive IHPI honor for impact on health policy and practice

Pictured left to right: Ayanian, Broglio, Ellimoottil, and Lantz

Steve Broglio, Ph.D., and Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S. were named the 2023 recipients of IHPI's Policy Impact Award at the Institute's Member Forum on April 18. IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., and Paula Lantz, Ph.D., M.S., M.A., professor of public policy and IHPI policy engagement faculty advisor, presented the awards.


Broglio, professor of kinesiology and founding director of the U-M Concussion Center, was selected for his sustained engagement and leadership in advancing concussion research and policy at local, state, national, and international levels. 


Ellimoottil, associate professor of urology and medical director of virtual care at Michigan Medicine, received this award for his impactful research and many contributions to institutional, state, and national policy in the rapidly evolving field of telehealth.

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ICYMI: Watch the 2024 IHPI Member Forum recording

A recap email will be sent soon!

Virtual program to promote smoking cessation among Medicaid-enrolled expectant mothers

A virtual program has launched to promote smoking cessation among Medicaid-enrolled expectant mothers in Michigan. A team led by Lara Coughlin, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, will oversee the implementation of Incentives2Quit, which provides small monetary incentives for participants to engage in the smoking cessation program via an online app, tailored motivational text messaging, and biologically verified breath tests that indicate if the participant has recently smoked.

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Lara Coughlin

LEARN SOMETHING NEW

Education, training, grants, and skill-building


IHPI 20242025 R01 Boot Camp

Deadline: May 13, 2024

IHPI partners with the U-M Medical School’s Mentored Research Academy: R01 Boot Camp to offer a health services research-focused R01 Boot Camp track. This multi-faceted mentoring program is designed to help early and mid-career faculty develop their first R01 proposal. 

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Women's Health Research: Notice of Special Interest

First Available Due Date: May 6, 2024

In alignment with the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, the NIH is issuing a Notice of Special Interest to highlight interest in receiving research applications focused on diseases and health conditions that predominantly affect women (e.g., autoimmune diseases, depressive disorders, Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, gender-based violence), present and progress differently in women (e.g., cardiovascular disease; HIV; reproductive aging), or are female-specific (e.g., uterine fibroids, endometriosis, menopause).

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IHPI Summer Student Programs

IHPI is hosting two summer student programs in June and July for students working with IHPI members. If you have students who may be interested in attending weekly lunch-and-learn sessions or skill-building seminars, please complete this form to add them to our email list.

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Healthy Minds Network national data on college student mental health

For 15 years, the University of Michigan Healthy Minds Network Healthy Minds Study (HMS) has collected student mental health data from 530+ colleges and universities. The Healthy Minds Network website offers free access to these data including the questionnaire, codebook, national data reports, and an interactive data interface tool, as well as other resources for researchers interested in college student mental health.

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MIDAS Summer Academies

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) summer academies equip researchers with the essential skills required to apply advanced data science techniques to their respective fields of study and integrate these methodologies into their grant proposals.


Biomedical Data Science Summer Academy 2024

Dates: July 8–12, 2024

Application deadline: May 9


MIDAS-ICPSR Social Data Science Summer Academy 2024

Dates: August 12–16, 2024, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. ET

Application deadline: August 8

Leading Your Research Team: Fundamentals of Negotiation, Hiring and Retaining Your Science Team

May 24, 2024 | 8:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

Biomedical Science Research Building, seminar rooms, first floor

This full-day program, sponsored by the Office of Faculty Development and the Office of Research, offers tailored workshops designed specifically for scientists and faculty in the research space:

  • Difficult Conversations in the Research Workplace: Fundamentals of Negotiation
  • Hiring and Retaining Your Science Team
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NIHCM Investigator-Initiated Health Care Research Grant Program

Deadline: June 28, 2024

The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM), is now accepting letters of inquiry for the 2024–2025 funding cycle of the NIHCM Foundation's investigator-initiated research grant program. The Institute is seeking studies with strong potential to inform policy or have a positive impact on the U.S. health care system by improving efficiency, quality, access to care, or equity.

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HIGHLIGHTED RESOURCE

Planning for Policy Impact Using Overton


This guide provides tips for using the policy database Overton to plan for policy impact. You'll find tips relevant for early stages of your research, all the way through dissemination.


Interested in learning more?  

Email: mlibrary-ncrc@umich.edu

SAVE THE DATES

Events that connect and engage

IHPI Reception @ AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Baltimore, MD

Monday, July 1 | 6:30–8:00 p.m. ET

Connect with colleagues and friends of IHPI who are committed to improving the quality, safety, equity, and affordability of health care.

Registration Required

Dying with Dementia:

Is Hospice the Answer?


May 2, 2024 | 9:00–10:30 a.m. NCRC, Building 10, Rm G064


Lauren Hunt, Ph.D., RN, FNP

Assistant Professor of Nursing University of California, San Francisco

Health System Frontiers: Making the most of an acute care encounter


May 10, 2024 | 9:00–10:30 a.m.

NCRC, Building 10, South Atrium


Elinore Kaufman, M.D., M.S.H.P.

Assistant Professor of Surgery University of Pennsylvania

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Publishing telehealth research: How to position your work for maximum impact


May 16, 2024 | 10:00–11:00 a.m. NCRC (Building 16 Room 467C) and Zoom


Laurie Buis, Ph.D., M.S.I.

Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Faculty Lead of IHPI’s Telehealth Research & Policy Initiative

Virtual care at Michigan Medicine: Updates and future directions



June 3, 2024 | 12:00–1:30 p.m.

NCRC (Building 16 Room 467C) and Zoom


Chad Ellimoottil, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Urology, Medical Director of Virtual Care for the University of Michigan Medical Group

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IHPI CAREER DEVELOPMENT HOUR

How to Navigate Becoming a Multi-PI

on an NIH Grant

Tuesday May 21, 2024 | 2:00–3:00 p.m. ET

During this session, Vahakn Shahinian, M.D., M.S., professor of internal medicine, will discuss how to navigate becoming a multi-PI on an NIH Grant, including tips for packaging a multi-PI application and use cases, caveats, and pitfalls of the multi-PI option.


This session will accommodate up to 20 participants.

Registration Required

Coffee and Donuts Break

Tuesday, May 14

10:00–10:30 a.m. ET

Popcorn Break

Tuesday, May 28

2:00–2:30 p.m. ET

IHPI EVENTS CALENDAR

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IN THE NEWS

Our members making headlines

Rapid rise seen in mental health diagnosis and care during and after pregnancy

A series of new findings, published in three papers in the April issue of Health Affairs, show rises in diagnoses of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder during pregnancy and the first year after giving birth in Americans with private insurance from 2008 to 2020. The research comes from a U-M team led by Kara Zivin, Ph.D., M.S., M.F.A., professor of psychiatry, studying mental health in the perinatal period.

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NATIONAL POLL ON HEALTHY AGING

Older adults’ use of urgent care and retail clinics

In the past two years, 60% of people age 50 to 80 have visited an urgent care clinic, or a clinic based in a retail store, workplace or vehicle, according to new findings from the U-M National Poll on Healthy Aging.

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Want to cut U.S. heart risks? Get more people into primary care,

study suggests

Lifetime of stress takes toll on cardiovascular health of Black Americans


In the drive to deprescribe, heartburn drug study teaches

key lessons

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