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    • How We Review Our Applications
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Have You Read Soapbox?

Have Your Read Soapbox?

Donaghue’s Soapbox blog offerings perspectives on creating practical benefit through research to improve health. Started last September, it’s a place for the Foundation and its grantees, advisers and colleagues to step up on the soapbox to express their views and share their knowledge related to healthcare innovation, medical research and education, and to address the challenges of putting evidence to action. If you haven’t already, check out these posts at https://donaghue.org/soapbox/.

“Fixing Our Broken Drug Pricing System: Patient Engagement is the Necessary First Step”
Steven Pearson, MD, MSc, Founder and President, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER)

“Developing a Pathway from Innovation to Impact”
Penny Mohr, MA; Carly Parry, PhD, MSW, MA; Steve Clausen, PhD, MPA – PCORI

“Less is More: Older Patients Can Benefit from De-Prescribing”
Donovan Maust, MD, MS – University of Michigan

“How to Preserve Existing Antibiotics – And Find New Ones”
Kathy Talkington, MPAff – Antibiotic Resistance Project, Pew Charitable Trusts

“Separating New Health News from Clickbait”
Michelle Spoto – DMD, PhD Student, University of Connecticut

  • Winter 2020 Newsletter

  • 2019 Greater Value Portfolio Awards

    Read about our new awards for research on a payer-provider joint venture; telemedicine for pregnancy care for low-income, urban women; an episode-based reimbursement system in a state-wide collaborative; and reducing unwanted care among older adults with multiple chronic conditions.

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  • Imagining a World Without Low Value Care

    Planning a route to the ambitious goal of radically reducing low value care: Researchers, policy experts, practicing physicians, and other key stakeholders gathered at AcademyHealth summit.

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  • How Can We Dismantle Health Equity Barriers In Research?

    Research funders must examine biases that may be hidden in our processes and may be promoting inequities inadvertently.

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  • 9th Annual Behavioral Science & Health Symposium

    Bringing together the leading researchers in behavioral economics and health.

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  • Have You Read Soapbox?

    Check out who’s stepped up on the Soapbox Bog to express their views on healthcare innovation, medical research and education, and putting evidence into action.

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  • Ask the Trustees

    Will the Another Look: Better Health for Older Adults grant program be back in 2020?

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