Happy New Year and Happy Early Lunar New Year!

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you in San Diego on February 2-4, 2025 for the upcoming sold-out 2025 SIREN National Research Meeting! If you’re unable to join us, you can follow along for highlights of the event from our new Bluesky social account: @siren-ucsf.bsky.social.

Recording from SIREN and the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School Webinar

On January 14th we hosted a webinar where we heard from state Medicaid leaders and other population health research experts about their innovative approaches and planned evaluations in Medicaid community reinvestments. The recording and presentation slides are available here.

Systems for Action: 2025 Call for Proposals: Community-Led Systems Research to Address Systemic Racism
This funding opportunity will provide up to $200,000 for one-year community-led feasibility studies of new interventions designed to dismantle and disrupt forms of systemic racism through the alignment of medical, social, and public health systems. Proposals are due on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at 3pm ET. Click here for more details.

Addressing Violence and Trauma Topical PCORI Funding Announcement
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) intends to issue a Topical PCORI Funding Announcement (PFA) on April 1, 2025, seeking to fund high-quality, patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research (CER) projects that focus on addressing violence and trauma.  Letters of Intent are due on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. Click here for more details.

Webinars

HealthBegins: Advancing Health Equity Effectively with the Social Needs Investment Lab – January 28, 2025 | 10am PT/ 1pm ET

Aligning Systems to Support Food Security in the U.S.  – February 12, 2025 | 9am PT/ 12pm ET

Meetings & Conferences

2025 SIREN National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care – February 2-4, 2025 | San Diego, CA

NCEAS 2025 Annual Conference: Healthcare Delivery Steps Up to Social Care: Implications for Health Professions Education – February 24-25, 2025 | virtual

The Rise Summit on SDoH: Building Healthy Communities to Enable Whole Person Health – April 7-9, 2025 | Louisvile, KY

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: CMS Health Equity Conference – April 23-24, 2025 | Bethesda, MD & virtual

American Hospital Association: Accelerating Health Equity Conference – May 19-22, 2025 | Baltimore, MD | Early bird registration ends March 31, 2025.

AcademyHealth 2025 Annual Research Meeting – June 7-10, 2025 |  Minneapolis, MN |

Camden Coalition: Putting Care At the Center Annual Conference – October 15-17, 2025 | Portland OR | Workshop presentation applications are open until March 7, 2025; Applications for Beehive stations are open until May 7, 2025.

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Healthy People 2030: Breaking Down Barriers to Health Care by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health – Originally broadcast December 13, 2024

ICF: Medicare and Medicaid Move Upstream to Address Social Determinants of Health – Originally broadcast January 7, 2025

Center for Health Care Strategies: Medicaid Nutrition Supports: Implementation Innovations – Originally broadcast January 9, 2025

SIREN and the Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School: State Medicaid Program Requirements for Community Reinvestment: Will They Improve Health? – Originally broadcast January 14, 2025

Below we share multiple SIREN-relevant articles published since the last newsletter. For a full list, see the SIREN Evidence and Resource Library. As always, if you are aware of resources that you think should be added to the library, please send them our way.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Awareness 

Trends in Screening for Social Risk in US Physician Practices Brewster AL, Rodriguez HP, Murray GF, Lewis VA, Schifferdecker KE, Fisher ES | JAMA Network Open

Standardizing Social Determinants of Health Data: A Proposal for a Comprehensive Screening Tool to Address Health Equity - A Systematic Review Ganatra S, Khadke S, Kumar A, et al. | Health Affairs Scholar

The Role of Routine and Structured Social Needs Data Collection in Improving Care in US Hospitals Richwine C, Patel V, Everson J, Iott B | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 

Barriers and Facilitators to Caregiver Comfort with Health-Related Social Needs Data Collection in the Pediatric Clinical Setting Brown R, Barouk N, Mcpeak K, Fein J, Cullen D | Health Services Research 

Caregivers' Views of a Pediatric Inpatient Intervention to Address Health-Related Social Risks Abramsohn EM, Mendoza TA, Bartlett AH, et al. | Hospital Pediatrics

The Impact of Language Discordance on Acquiring Broad Social History: A Qualitative Study of Patients, Clinicians, and Interpreters Doshi B, Luna I, Quesada R, Garcia ME, Fernandez A, Khoong EC | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Implementation of a Child Maltreatment Screening Tool in the Prehospital Setting Ferguson M, Brukman S, Zaky K, et al. | Prehospital Emergency Care

Dual Psychosocial Screening of the Adolescent Patient by Implementing the SEEK Teen Questionnaire Spotts RL, Shook J, Fogel BN, Emrick C, Schaefer E, Dubowitz H | Academic Pediatrics

Screening for Health-Related Social Needs: American College of Preventive Medicine's Practice Statement Livingston CJ, Titus TM, Yerokun TA, Patel NA | American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Assistance

Tracing Value From Social Determinant Solutions Nichols LM, Waidman TA, Clemans-Cope L, Garrett B, Taylor K | Health Affairs Scholar

Individual and Clinical Factors Associated with Patient Acceptance of Referrals to Social Services and Community Resources at a Multi-Purpose Resource Hub Green G, Flores R, Barragan NC, Gonzalez K, Kuo T | Translational Behavioral Medicine

Patient Preferences for Addressing Unhealthy Behaviors, Mental Health Challenges, and Social Needs in Primary Care Gilbert JL, Brooks EM, Funk A, et al. | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Community Health Workers Bridging the Gap: Connecting Medicaid Members with Providers, Managed Care, and Community-Based Organizations Austin S, Qu H | Risk Management and Healthcare Policy

Assessment of Adherence to American Diabetes Association Guidelines and Evaluation of Social Determinants of Health and Interventions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Nurse Practitioner-Owned Clinic Murumba RG, Naman RO, Tuohy CA, White PA, Wright W | Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Pediatric Behavioral Health Medical-Legal Partnerships: A Novel Approach to Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care Kala S, Swallow MA, Sicklick J, Poncin Y, Meyer K | Academic Pediatrics

The Rhode Island Transitions Clinic: Connections to Social and Healthcare Services After Release from Incarceration LeMasters K, Levintow SN, Berk J, et al. | BMC Health Services Research

The Effect of a Veterans Affairs Rapid Rehousing and Homelessness Prevention Program on Long-Term Housing Instability Chapman AB, Scharfstein D, Byrne T, et al. | Health Services Research

Sustainability of California's Whole Person Care Pilots Integrating Medical and Social Services for Medicaid Enrollees Via Newly Developed Medicaid Benefits Safaeinili N, Chuang E, Fleming M, Ramanadhan S, Pourat N, Brewster A | Health Services Research

Physician Engagement in Addressing Health-Related Social Needs and Burnout Tabata-Kelly M, Hu X, Dill MJ, et al. | JAMA Network Open

Food Interventions

Food as Medicine, Community as Medicine: Mental Health Effects of a Social Care Intervention Thompson-Lastad A, Chiu DT, Ruvalcaba D, et al. | Health Services Research

Food for Cancer Health Equity: A Qualitative Study Among People with Cancer Who Are Low-Income, Latino or Hispanic, Immigrant, and Individuals with Multiple Minoritized Races and Ethnicities Hanna M, Wood EH, Noyola Perez A, et al. | JCO Oncology Practice

Food Insecurity and Pediatric HIV: Patient Perspectives on Clinical Solutions Owens CE, Cook M, Chowdhury J, Virani N, Johnson KA | AIDS Care

Tools & Toolkits

A Practical Guide on Intimate Partner Violence, Human Trafficking, and Exploitation and Technology Tools | National Training and Technical Assistance Partners, HITEQ and Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation

Enhancing Emergency Preparedness in Health Centers for Addressing IPV, HT, and Exploitation Trampas D, Chang K, Marjavi A | Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation