In 2014, AcademyHealth’s Translation and Dissemination Institute (TDI) launched the Innovators-in-Residence Program. Funded by Kaiser Permanente, the Innovators-in-Residence program offers health professionals paid fellowships to assist AcademyHealth with distributing evidence-based health services research. During their fellowships, Innovators act as AcademyHealth consultants with responsibilities, such as leading committees and special groups, contributing to the AcademyHealth blog, and conducting seminars. Innovators also complete and present an independent project about original ways to transform research into policy and practice. Projects completed during the first year of the program focused on care delivery in safety net clinics and improving care for vulnerable populations.
Three fellows were selected between June 2014 and June 2015.
The first fellow was Ernest Moy, MD, MPH, a Medical Officer with the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. For his independent project, Dr. Moy developed a tool that assessed geographic and demographic characteristics in order to examine health disparities. Dr. Moy hopes that his model will be used in various cities to help policymakers design stronger disparity interventions.
AcademyHealth elected its second fellow, Linda Cummings, PhD, in January 2015. Dr. Cummings was previously Vice President for Research for America’s Essential Hospital, during which she gained experience with safety net hospitals and health disparities. For her fellowship project, which she will complete in the fall, Dr. Cummings is creating profiles outlining how three different safety net delivery systems approach research. She will release these profiles at the end of the summer. In the fall, Dr. Cummings will moderate a meeting about her project, and she will interview professionals from each of the three delivery systems. Links to her work will be posted to this page later this year.
The final 2015 fellow is Dr. Felicia Mebane, CEO of Mebane Media Communications and adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. During her time as an Innovator-in-Residence from April to June 2015, Dr. Mebane began working on a project called Health Services Unplugged, a podcast and blog series about health services research and the professionals involved in the field.
Meet the 2014-2015 AcademyHealth Innovators-in-Residence
