Presenting Our Engagement Grant Awardees

We are proud to announce that four proposals have been selected to receive SIREN Engagement Grants! Grantees for this opportunity, which is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, were selected by the Engagement Grant Advisory Committee and representatives of the SIREN team from a pool of 54 applications after months of review and deliberation. Awardees will soon be embarking on two-year projects to strengthen lived experience and community engagement in social care research with diverse populations and settings across the United States. Visit our updated Engagement Grant webpage to learn more about the selected project goals and teams.

Upcoming SIREN Webinar on Results from Accountable Health Communities Model

Join SIREN on November 13th at 11am PT/ 2pm ET for our next SIREN Research to Disseminate webinar featuring a conversation on the latest results from the evaluation of the Accountable Health Communities model. Speakers will include Lucia Rojas Smith and Will Parish from RTI International and Gigi Crane and Shannon O’Connor from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation.

Health Services Research Special Issue Call for Abstracts: Social Care and the US Health Care Sector

We are excited to share that Health Services Research (HSR) is partnering with SIREN on a special issue on the health care sector’s practices and opportunities for identifying and addressing social care needs. Please consider submitting an abstract and help us get the word out! The deadline for abstracts is Wednesday January 3, 2024. More details on this special issue sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation here.

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science: Social Determinants of Health in Clinical and Translational Science

The Journal of Clinical and Translational Science is issuing a Call for Papers for a special themed issue, which will focus on studies that address social determinants of health (SDoH) in clinical and translational science. Manuscripts are due December 31, 2023. Full details can be found here.

Evidence for Action (E4A) is launching a new call for proposals, Indigenous-Led Solutions to Advance Health Equity and Wellbeing, in November 2023. Under this call they are seeking to fund Indigenous-led community-prioritized investigation of solutions with the potential to advance health and well-being, integrating and elevating Indigenous cultures and knowledge-building practices. More detailed information can be found here.

Webinars

Systems for Action: Investigating Systems Alignment of Multi-Sector Agencies to Address Child Maltreatment in St. Louis – October 25, 2023 | 9am PT/ 12pm ET

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations, Health Outreach Partners, MHP Salud, and National Health Care for the Homeless Council: Harnessing the Power of Outreach and Enabling Services to Address Social Drivers of Health – November 8, 2023 | 12pm PT/ 3pm ET

Meetings & Conferences

North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) Meeting – October 30-November 3, 2023 | San Francisco, CA

The Root Cause Coalition 8th Annual National Summit – December 3-5, 2023 | Kansas City, MO | Registration now open

Symposium on the Social and Structural Drivers of Health in Medical Education
Join Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine and partners from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Collaboration for Education to Address the Social Determinants of Health (NCEAS) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on December 8th from 8:30am-12pm PT to learn about the forces driving healthcare to better address health-related social needs and implications for medical education. This is a hybrid event. Register here. 

American Hospital Association: Accelerating Health Equity Conference – May 7-9, 2024 | Kansas City, MO | Call for content open until September 22, 2023. More information here.

Systems for Action: Effectiveness of Early Childhood Development Partnerships in Addressing Pediatric Health and Social Needs during COVID-19 Pandemic – Originally broadcast October 11, 2023

Below we share multiple SIREN-relevant articles published since the last newsletter, organized using relevant NASEM social care framework 5As categories. For a full list, go to the SIREN Evidence and Resource Library. As always, if you are aware of resources you think should be added to the Library, please send them our way!

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Awareness 

Frequency and Nature of Discussing Social Influences on Health in Urban Safety-net Clinics: A Qualitative Analysis Chebly KO, Shen M, Schoenthaler AM | Patient Education and Counseling

"Wanting the Best for Our Folks"-A Mixed Methods Analysis of Community Health Center Social Risk Screening Initiatives De Marchis EH, Aceves B,  Razon N, Chang Weir R, Jester M, Gottlieb LM | Journal of American Board of Family Medicine

Screening for Financial Hardship: Comparing Patient Survey Responses Using Two Different Screening Tools De Marchis EH, Fleegler EW, Cohen AJ, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Use of and Barriers to Adopting Standardized Social Risk Screening Tools in Federally Qualified Health Centers During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic Giron NC, Cole MB, Nguyen KH | Health Services Research

Implementing and Enhancing Social and Economic Needs Screening at a Federally Qualified Health Center Johnson L, Liss DT, Carcamo P, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Development and Validation of an Abbreviated Child and Adult Food Security Scale for Use in Clinical and Research Settings in the United States Poblacion A, Ettinger de Cuba S, Frank DA, et al. | Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Pediatrics

Clinician Champions' Influence on Social Needs Screening Volumes in Pediatric Practices Berman RS, Nguyen HT, Levano SR, Fiori KP | Clinical Pediatrics

Social and Medical Care Integration Practices Among Children's Hospitals Pantell MS, Holmgren AJ, Leary JC, et al. | Hospital Pediatrics

See accompanying commentary here.

Inpatient Screening of Parental Adversity and Strengths Shah AN, Goodman E, Lawler J, et al. | Hospital Pediatrics

Assistance

Social Navigation for Adolescent Emergency Department Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial Rucker A, Watson A, Badolato G, Jarvis L, Patel SJ, Goyal MK | The Journal of Adolescent Health

Unconditional Cash Transfers and Maternal Assessments of Children's Health, Nutrition, and Sleep: A Randomized Clinical Trial Sperber JF, Gennetian LA, Hart ER, et al. | JAMA Network Open

Assessment of Financial Screening and Navigation Capabilities at National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Clinics Bell-Brown A, Watabayashi K, Delaney D, et al. | JNCI Cancer Spectrum 

Addressing Housing-Related Social Needs for Medicaid Beneficiaries: A Qualitative Assessment of Maryland's Medicaid §1115 Waiver Program DeGrazia R, Abdullahi A, Mood M, Diehl C, Stockwell I, Pollack CE | BMC Health Services Research

Findings from a Peer-Facilitated, Social Isolation Intervention in the Veterans Health Administration Healthcare System: A Mixed-Methods, Pilot Feasibility Study Eliacin J, Patterson SM, Mendez DM, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

If You Build It, They May Not Come: Understanding Factors Influencing Use of a Community Resource Referral Technology Fichtenberg C, Cartier Y, Burnett J,  Ricks-Stephen C, Paulson G | Health Services Research

Engaging Stakeholder Advisors Around Health-Related Social Needs Research, Policy, and Practice Priorities Moen M, Doede M, Schweitzer A | Population Health Management

Community-based Organizations' Perspectives on Piloting Health and Social Care Integration in North Carolina Nohria R, Yu J, Tu K, et al. | BMC Public Health

Health Centres and Social Determinants of Health: An Analysis of Enabling Services Provision and Clinical Quality Topmiller M, McCann J, Hoang H, et al. | Family Medicine and Community Health

Feasibility of a Food-Based Diabetes Self-Management Education Intervention for Food Insecure Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Convergent Mixed Methods Study Short E, Thompson D, Taren D, et al. | Public Health Nutrition

A Rural Delivery-Based Produce Prescription Intervention Improves Glycemic Control and Stress Stroud B, Jacobs MM, Palakshappa D, Sastre LR | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Alignment 

Moving Upstream: Healthcare Partnerships Addressing Social Determinants of Health Through Community Wealth Building Gusoff GM, Zuckerman D, Pham BH, Ryan GW | BMC Public Health

Commentaries & Blogs

Addressing Structural Inequalities, Structural Racism, and Social Determinants of Health: A Vision for the Future Egede LE, Walker RJ, Williams JS | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Transportation Justice and Health Hansmann KJ, Razon N | Milbank Quarterly

Food Is Medicine: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association  Volpp KG, Berkowitz SA, Sharma SV, et al. | Circulation 

Reports & Policy Briefs

Addressing Social Needs through Medicaid: Lessons from Planning and Early Implementation of North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots Huber K, Bleser W, Whitaker R, et al. | Milbank Memorial Fund, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

Accountable Health Communities Model Awardees Communicate the Value of Addressing Health-Related Social Needs | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services