The column highlighted foundations from across the country. Among these are the Rasmuson Foundation, which provided funding in Alaska for the rural training component of a dental health aide therapist program in remote areas.
The column also described two philanthropies' grants to Oral Health Kansas to advocate for comprehensive Medicaid adult dental benefits. Further, Prina wrote about Arcora Foundation's funding for a feasibility study—and pending its results—implementation of community water fluoridation for Spokane, Washington.
Another recent article in the November issue of Health Affairs also discussed oral health.
Brandy Lipton and coauthors examined survey data and determined that adult Medicaid dental coverage is associated with a 5-percentage-point reduction
in the prevalence of untreated caries among children in low-income families after Medicaid-enrolled adults had access to dental coverage for at least one year.
In a February 2020 Health Affairs Forefront article, Melissa Burroughs and coauthors outlined important administrative actions and legislative opportunities that the
Biden-Harris administration could take to better ensure the oral health, health, and economic well-being of all Americans.
Today in Health Affairs Forefront, Brendan Carr and coauthors argue that COVID-19 has demonstrated the connection between private-sector interests and the need to ensure the public’s
health.
Check out our COVID-19 Resource Center for Health Affairs content about all things related to the pandemic.
First
Cohort of Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees
Health Affairs is excited to announce the first cohort of the Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees (HEFT). The fellowship program is designed to advance racial equity in scholarly publishing of health policy and
health services research around three pillars: equitable participation, new voices, and introspection.
The inaugural cohort of the Health Equity Fellowship for Trainees includes 10 early-career health policy researchers dedicated to the advancement of racial health equity through policies impacting our nation’s health services:
Andrew Anderson, PhD -Health services researcher and Assistant
Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Tulane School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Yarden S. Fraiman, MD, MPH - Neonatologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
Adrian H. Huerta, PhD - Assistant Professor of Education, Pullias Center for Higher Education, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
Elaine C. Khoong, MD, MS -General Internist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
Sarah A. Lieff, PhD - Researcher, Mathematica
Felippe O. Marcondes, MD -Second-year General Internal Medicine Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Supriya Misra, ScD - Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, San Francisco State University
Destiny Tolliver, MD - Pediatrician and Postdoctoral Fellow, National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP), Yale School of Medicine
Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Prevention & Control, Northwestern University
Mignote Yilma, MD - General Surgery resident, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)
About Health Affairs
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