AcademyHealth
| Motto | Advancing research, policy, and practice |
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| Formation | 2000 |
| Type | Professional Organization |
| Headquarters | 1666 K Street NW |
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President and CEO
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Lisa Simpson |
| Website | www.academyhealth.org |
AcademyHealth is a nonpartisan, nonprofit professional organization dedicated to advancing the fields of health services research and health policy. It is a professional organization for health services researchers, health policy analysts, and health practitioners, and it is a nonpartisan source for health research and policy. The organization was founded in 2000, in a merger between the Alpha Center and the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR). As of 2008, the organization “boasts a membership of approximately 4000 health services researchers.”
The organization’s first president, W. David Helms, was founder and director of the Alpha Center from 1976–2000. Helms left the organization in December 2010.
The organization's current president, Lisa Simpson, assumed the role in January 2011.
AcademyHealth was established in June 2000, following a merger between the Alpha Center and the Association for Health Services Research (AHSR); the two organizations had been operating under a joint operation agreement since January 1999
Founded in March 1976 and based in Washington, D.C., the Alpha Center functioned as a health policy resource center, “assist[ing] public and private sector leaders in meeting health care challenges by providing research analysis, facilitation, education and training, strategic planning, and program management.”
The Association for Health Services Research was formed in 1981 as the first professional organization for health services researchers. It functioned as a non-profit professional society for individuals and organizations with a commitment to health services research. AHSR’s mission included educating consumers and policymakers about the importance of health services research, disseminating information generated by health services researchers, securing funding for the field, and providing networking and professional development opportunities.
Since the merger, AcademyHealth has assumed the duties of both parent organizations.
AcademyHealth manages several programs that serve the health services and policy communities.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the HCFO program seeks to bridge the health services research and health policy communities and to provide public and private decision makers with usable information on health care policy, financing, and organization. AcademyHealth serves as the HCFO program’s National Program Office. Established in 1988 as the successor to RWJ’s Program for Demonstration and Research on Health Care Costs, HCFO has since funded more than 265 projects on the effects of financing on cost, access, organization, and quality. The program has used meetings and conferences, newsletters, briefs, special papers, as well as peer-reviewed journal articles to facilitate the dissemination of its findings to policymakers.
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