SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Call for Abstracts Now Open

We're excited to open the Call for Abstracts for the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care, which will take place on February 2-4, 2025 in San Diego, California.

We invite you to submit your social care research to the National Research Meeting! Abstracts for posters, podium presentations, and workshops should focus on the implementation or effectiveness of healthcare policies / practices related to collecting data about social conditions and/or interventions informed by data about social conditions. These healthcare policies and practices may be targeted at the patient, system, or community level. We are particularly interested in research that examines equity-related outcomes.

Submit your abstracts by August 5, 2024.  

SIREN Podcasts are Back

In anticipation of our upcoming 2025 SIREN National Research Meeting, we will be releasing weekly SIREN podcast episodes from now through the month of July. Each episode features recordings from live webinar conversations with experts on social care topics including the healthcare sector’s role in addressing social drivers of health, the new SIREN conceptual model, food security interventions and more. This season of the SIREN podcast is supported by Kaiser Permanente. Subscribe on your favorite podcast app (Spotify | Apple) to receive each new episode and take SIREN on your summer walks.

Video Now Available from SIREN Webinar

The recording from our June 5th webinar: Where should healthcare invest in food security interventions? Lessons from recent research is now available on the SIREN website and the SIREN YouTube channel. This webinar included researchers Drs. Kurt Hager, Hilary Seligman, and Ariana Thompson-Lastad in a discussion moderated by Dr. Monica Soni, Chief Medical Officer of Covered California on the impacts of interventions such as medically tailored meals and produce prescriptions on diet-related health conditions.

Webinars

Systems for Action: An Aligned Delivery and Financing Model to Address Food Insecurity and Social Needs of Low-Income Pregnant Women – July 10, 2024  | 9am PT/12pm ET

Systems for Action: Social Bonds as a Pooled Financing Mechanism to Address Social Drivers of Health Equity – July 17, 2024 | 9am PT/12pm ET

Meetings & Conferences

CIE San Diego: 8th Annual CIE Summit – June 24-26, 2024 | San Diego, CA | Registration open

AcademyHealth: 2024 Annual Research Meeting – June 29-July 2, 2024 | Baltimore, MD

The Root Cause Coalition’s 9th Annual National Summit on Social Drivers of Health – October 6-8, 2024 | Baltimore, MD

Camden Coalition Putting Care at the Center 2024 – October 16-18, 2024 | Pittsburgh, PA

NAPCRG Annual Meeting – November 20-24, 2024 | Quebec, Canada

Manatt Health: New Federal Rules on Medicaid Access and Managed Care Webinar Series – Originally broadcast May 14, May 28 & June 4, 2024

HealthBegins: Health Housing, and Justice: What Kaiser Permanente Learned from Investing in Legal Aid – Originally broadcast May 16, 2024

SIREN Webinar: Where Should Healthcare Invest In Food Security Interventions? Lessons From Recent Research –  Originally broadcast June 5, 2024

Health Leads: The Heart of Health Equity: All Things Black Maternal Health & Reproductive Justice with Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha – Originally broadcast June 11, 2024

Systems for Action: Can California's CalAIM Medicaid Transformation Initiative Achieve Systems Integration? Identifying Key Facilitators of Cross-Sectoral Coordination for Individuals with Complex Needs – Originally broadcast June 12, 2024  

Manatt Health: The Impact of AI on Health Care Providers and Payors – Originally broadcast June 12, 2024  

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 

Family Medicine Clinician Screening and Barriers to Communication on Food Insecurity: A CERA General Membership Survey Bunt SK, Traxler M, Zimmerman B, et al. | Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Federally Qualified Health Centers' Screening for Social Risk Factors and Health Outcomes Davlyatov G, Choi S, Borkowski NM, Hearld KR, Aswani M | Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Documentation of Social Determinants of Health Across Individuals from Different Racial and Ethnic Groups in Home Healthcare Hobensack M, Scharp D, Song J, Topaz M | Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Financial Hardship Among Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage Enrollees with and Without Food Insecurity Park S, Berkowitz SA | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Spanish-Speaking Caregiver Preferences for Social Determinants of Health Screening Swamy P, Monterrey AC, Duran C, et al. | Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 

Evaluating Adherence to American Diabetes Association Standards of Care in Diabetes and Impacts of Social Determinants of Health on Patients at Two Nurse Practitioner-Owned Clinics Tuohy CA, Liziewski KE, White PA, Wright WL | Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Implementing Inpatient Social Needs Screening in an Urban Tertiary Care Children's Hospital Islam F, Fiori KP, Rinke ML, et al. | Hospital Pediatrics

Predicting Self-Reported Social Risk in Medically Complex Adults Using Electronic Health Data Grant RW, McCloskey JK, Uratsu CS, et al. | Medical Care

Screening for Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Healthcare Setting: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Non-Medicaid Insured Adults in an Integrated Healthcare Delivery System Byker Shanks C, Gordon NP | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Social Needs Screening and Intervention in Pediatric Primary Care: Impact on Families' Experience of Care Ronis SD, Masotya M, Birkby G, Stange KC | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Assistance

Using Community Engagement to Move Upstream to Address Social Determinants of Health Jones R, Bilello L, Knight AM, Livingood WC, Whitner C, Webb F | Academic Medicine

A Qualitative Study of a Health Center-Based Mobile Produce Market Rudel RK, Byhoff E, Fielman SB, Strombotne KL, Drainoni ML, Greece JA | Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Addressing Food Insecurity in the Inpatient Setting: Results of a Postdischarge Pilot Study Smith M, Tepe KA, Sauers-Ford H, et al | Journal of Hospital Medicine

New Supplemental Benefits and Plan Ratings Among Medicare Advantage Enrollees Tucher EL, Meyers DJ, Trivedi AN, Gottlieb LM, Thomas KS | JAMA Network Open

Adopting a Nurse-Led Model of Care to Advance Whole-Person Health and Health Equity Within Medicaid Johnson C, Ingraham MK, Stafford SR, Guilamo-Ramos V | Nursing Outlook

Community Hospital Interventions Addressing the Medical and Social Needs of Patients: Patient Perspectives from the CHART Investment Program Louis CJ, Koppelman EA, Bachman SS | Journal of Ambulatory Care Management

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Patient Navigation for Health-Related Social Needs: Reflections from the Accountable Health Communities Model Payne J, DePriest K, Clayton ML, Berzin OKG, Renaud JM | Family & Community Health

Primary Care and Community Partnerships to Promote Age-Friendly Care for Hispanic Older Adults Ross SE, Severance JJ, Murphy SC, et al. | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Reports & Policy Briefs

Food is Medicine Research Action Plan Hager K, Lewin-Zwerdling A, Furstenberg-Beckman L, Griffith J, McDougall T, Schwartz P | ASPEN Institute

SIREN Note: This report has great summaries of the evidence on Food is Medicine interventions starting on page 61.

Commentaries & Blogs

Thinking Through Food is Medicine Interventions Berkowitz, S | Journal of General Internal Medicine

The Social Determinants of Health Industry: Two Years On Goldberg ZN, Shah YB, Harness ED, Nash DB | International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services

Clinical Care Adjustments Based on Socioeconomic Adversity Tyris J, Gottlieb L | JAMA Pediatrics

Creating Culturally Adapted Multilingual Materials for Research Coffin A, Elder B, Luercio M, et al. | Pediatrics