Kathryn Lawler, excutive director for the Atlanta Regional Collaborative for Health Improvement, housed at the Georgia Health Policy Center, was recently quoted in the KaiserHealth News article “Atlanta Struggles To Meet MLK’s Legacy On Health Care.” Read the full article here.
Access to quality, affordable housing is critical for supporting good health. For individuals and families with tight budgets, high housing costs can lead to tough choices between making rent and going to the doctor, between keeping the lights on and buying healthy food, or even between being part of a community or becoming socially isolated.
Using behavior over time graphs can spur systems thinking and advance a shared understanding of complex challenges among diverse groups, according to a paper recently published in Preventing Chronic Disease by Georgia Health Policy Center researcher Jane Branscomb and her coauthors at the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Intensive care coordination helps to save money by serving youth with severe mental health in community-based settings rather than inpatient facilities, according to a study published by Georgia Health Policy Center researchers in the Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. This is the first study to find evidence of longer-term spending reductions for up to a year after participation in a wraparound intervention.
Georgia is home to one of the nation’s largest populations of individuals with sickle cell disease, with more than 7,000 individuals living with the disease in almost every county in Georgia. Data from public health, hospitals, and insurance claims are collected in Georgia to better understand who lives with the disease, how and where they seek care and whether they receive treatment based on best practices. The Georgia Health Policy Centerat Georgia State University is the hub for these efforts, serving as Georgia’s Hemoglobin Disorders Data Coordinating Center since its inception in 2011. Read the articlein the SaportaReport by Angie Snyder, director of health systems, and Jane Branscomb, senior research associate, to learn more about this work.
An article by Giselle Moses, a research coordinator for the Georgia Health Policy Center, was featured in The Signal. Moses discusses the importance of blood donation, especially in the case of patients living with sickle cell disease and thalassemia. View the article here.
The Research Associate I will be dedicated to the COE’s Policy & Finance arm, and will play an integral role in operationalizing components of Georgia’s System of Care State Plan. Applicant must be organized and possess strong writing and analytical skills, the ability to work independently and with a team, and to meet deadlines.
The Research Associate II is a contributing member of multiple research, technical assistance, policy development, and programmatic teams depending on scope of work. The RA II works primarily in the center’s three main areas of focus: health services research, health program design, implementation, and evaluation, and health policy development. This RA II position will work primarily with the Center’s Medicaid Team.