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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
TODAY ON THE BLOG

COVID-19

How One Foundation Is Using Research To Enhance Its COVID-19 Response Grant Making
By Sophie Wheelock, Mark A. Zezza, and David Sandman

Dedicating certain staffers and funding to research and analytics can help foundations target their grant making to those most in need and provide important information to grantees, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.The New York State Health Foundation, with a longstanding practice of doing research and data analysis, for example, analyzed near real-time US Census Bureau data to determine food scarcity trends in the state during the pandemic. Read More >>


DISPARITIES

Health Equity Should Be A Key Value In Value-Based Payment And Delivery Reform
By Sahil Sandhu, Robert S. Saunders, Mark B. McClellan, and Charlene A. Wong

The COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the need to prioritize health equity in value-based payment reform. Going beyond identifying the persistent health disparities in our system will require taking concrete steps related to performance measurement, reimbursement, and care delivery. Read More >>


PHARMACEUTICALS & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Balancing Lower US Prescription Drug Prices And InnovationPart 2
By Steven M. Lieberman, Paul B. Ginsburg, and Kavita Patel

Balancing the tension between lowering U.S. drug prices while sustaining robust research and development investment poses a complex challenge for policy makers and raises the fundamental question addressed in this two-part blog post: how can the U.S. minimize the adverse effects of lower drug prices on innovation? Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

BOOK REVIEWS

Two books to consider for the long holiday weekend:

An American Disgrace

Jeff Goldsmith reviews Deaths of Despair, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton.
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Book Review: Deaths of Despair
Book Review: Stuck

A CLOSER LOOKWorld AIDS Day

In six days the world will observe World AIDS Day for the 32nd time. As the global health community looks toward ending the epidemic, reread Preeti Malani’s 2015 blog post on innovations in care delivery. She puts forth a reimagining of how the nation’s safety net provides treatment for people living with HIV.

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