The Center for Advancing Health Policy Through Research Presents a Lecture by Guest Roz Murray, MPP

LeaRRn Webinar: Gretchen Piatt, MPH, PhD, presents “Breaking Down Learning Health System Silos: The Vital Role of Inclusive, Accessible, & Adaptable Teams.”

This session will focus on best practices in team management, types of needed organizational infrastructure, and how to support culture change to promote collaboration in learning health systems (LHS).

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

Jose F. Figueroa, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). He is a practicing Hospitalist and Associate Physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he serves as the Faculty Director of the BWH Medicine Residency Management & Leadership Pathway. Dr. Figueroa is also the Faculty Director of the Healthcare Quality & Outcomes Lab at HSPH and the Co-Director of the International Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes, and Needs in Care (ICCONIC), an international research collaborative across 12 high-income countries. He received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

His main research interests focus on understanding the drivers of healthcare spending and poor clinical outcomes among low-income and historically marginalized populations with complex clinical needs. To date, this has included work on racial and ethnic minorities, Dueal-Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and people with frailty, major disabilities, and serious mental illness. His research also focuses on evaluating how policy interventions and payment reform aimed at improving the quality of care and controlling costs are working, and in particular, how they affect safety-net clinicians and hospitals. To support his work, Dr. Figueroa is funded by grants from the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Harvard Center for AIDS Research, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Episcopal Health Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

LeaRRn Grand Rounds: Stephen Hunter, PT, DPT, presents “It Takes A Village: Team-Based Clinical Research Within A Learning Health System”

Sustained improvements in evidence-based clinical practice is not an easy task. This requires assembling a research team balanced with frontline caregivers, researchers, clinical leaders, analysts and statisticians. This team will guide data collection on current performance, translate that data to knowledge and most importantly, support providers to apply that knowledge in clinical performance, resulting in better patient outcomes at a lower cost. This talk will review these principles supported by case studies and published research.

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

LeaRRn Webinar: Kristin Rosengren, presents “Strategic Communication Strategies for Research Impact”

How we communicate about our work, with whom, when, and in what format can affect the way that information is received and acted upon – or not. In this session, participants will learn about the importance of setting communications goals as well as simple approaches for defining and understanding target audiences, and developing effective messages and tactics to support change.

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”

LeaRRn Grand Rounds: Pimjai Sudsawad, ScD, presents “Knowledge Translation: The What, The Why, & The How”

The presenter will discuss knowledge translation frameworks and activities at a federal funding agency, the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). The presenter will discuss knowledge translation in the context of disability and rehabilitation research and provide examples of how projects funded by NIDILRR have incorporated knowledge translation principles and methodologies.

This event is part of LeaRRn’s Series “Using Health System Research to Revolutionize Rehabilitation Care.”