Say NO to cuts to NIH, AHRQ, HRSA, CDC!

We were deeply saddened and frustrated by the cuts to health care access and food assistance that President Trump signed into law on July 4th. These are expected to lead to nearly 12 million more uninsured in 2034 and 22.3 million families losing some or all of their food benefits, and will also significantly negatively impact rural hospitals, community health centers, and nursing homes. On the heels of these cruel cuts to our already meager safety net, Congress is now debating the Fiscal Year 2026 cuts to discretionary programs proposed by the President. These include a 40% cut to the NIH, a 54% cut to the CDC, the elimination of AHRQ, and a $1 billion cut to health workforce programs, among many other cuts and changes. Now is the time to voice your opposition to these cuts. Send letters to your members of Congress here. And participate in a Day of Action on Monday, July 21st to protect federal investments in research and innovation.

SIREN Webinars Returning Fall 2025: Registration Now Open

September 10th: Engaging Communities and Patient Voices in Social Care Research: Insights from SIREN and HERN

Please join us on September 10, 2025 at 9am PT/12pm ET for a special methods webinar with our colleagues from the Health Experiences Research Network (HERN), a non-profit research group that seeks to bring patient voices to American health care by leveraging the Database of Individual Patients' Experiences (DIPEx) methodology to lift up and disseminate patient stories. Join us to hear HERN colleagues describe this powerful methodology for centering patient experiences and the impact this can have in our work moving forward.

October 21st: Engaging Communities in Social Care Research: Learnings from SIREN’s Social Care Engagement Grantees

Join us on October 21st from 10-11:30am PT/ 1-2:30pm ET as we explore the transformative impact of the SIREN Engagement Grantees' projects. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, over the last two years SIREN grantee research-community partnerships carried out innovative projects to strengthen community engagement and amplify the voices of those with lived experiences in social care research. Dive into discussions with the grantee teams and discover how these efforts are driving forward the future of engaged social care research across diverse populations and settings in the United States.

Webinars

Camden Coalition: Making the Case for Advancing Health: Lessons From Two Medical-Legal Partnership Evaluations – July 24, 2025 | 12pm PT/3pm ET

Systems for Action: Equity in Action: Navigating New Landscapes in Health Equity Research – August 27, 2025 | 9am PT/12pm ET

Systems for Action: Systems in Focus Panel | Food as Medicine – September 10, 2025 | 9am PT/12pm ET

Meetings & Conferences

Camden Coalition: Putting Care At the Center Annual Conference – October 15-17, 2025 | Portland, OR

2025 PCORI Annual Meeting – October 21-22, 2025 | Washington, D.C.
Registration is now open. More details here.

NAMD Fall 2025 Conference – November 19-21, 2025 | National Harbor, MD | Registration is open.

NAPCRG 53rd Annual Meeting  – November 21-25, 2025 | Atlanta GA | Registration is open.

AHIMA HI-Five Web Series: Using Data to Address Social Needs with Gravity Project’s Sarah DeSilvey – Originally broadcast on June 9, 2025

Systems for Action: An Aligned Delivery & Financing Model to Address Food Insecurity and Social Needs of Low-Income Pregnant Women  – Originally broadcast on July 9, 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

New Evidence-based Recommendations and Statements

Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement US Preventive Services Task Force, Silverstein M, Wong JB, et al. | JAMA

Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and for Caregiver Abuse of Older or Vulnerable Adults: An Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force Feltner C, Peat C, Asher GN, et al. | JAMA

See related commentaries below

A Systematic Review of "Food Is Medicine" Randomized Controlled Trials for Noncommunicable Disease in the United States: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Seligman HK, Angell SY, Berkowitz SA, et al. | Circulation

Awareness

Unmet Health Care and Health-Related Social Needs of Laundromat Users Leininger LJ, Bragg C, Chang A, Palm A | American Journal of Managed Care

Nonresponse to Health-Related Social Needs Screening Items Within Pediatric Primary Care Ragavan MI, Schweiberger K, Palakshappa D, Garg A, Hanmer J, Ray K | Pediatrics

Food Insecurity in US Surgical Patients: Findings from the National Health Interview Survey Jones A, Ehsan AN, Katave C, et al. | JAMA Surgery

Social Needs Screening and Uptake Patterns of a Produce Prescription Program in an Urban Pediatric Primary Care Clinic Branley CE, Barahona-Paz K, Garg L, et al. | Academic Pediatrics

Studying Veteran Food Insecurity Longitudinally Using Electronic Health Record Data and Natural Language Processing Chapman AB, Panadero T, Dalrymple R, et al. | AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science Proceedings

Factors Associated with Documenting Social Determinants of Health in Electronic Health Records Park J, Jabbarpour Y, Phillips RL, Bazemore AW, Hendrix N | Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Z-Coding for Social Contributors to Health in Colorado Federally Qualified Health Centers Reed SM, Hensen C, Centi S, et al. | Nursing Research

Outreach Assessment for Social Health Needs in Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Qualitative Study of Patient Experience Ralston JD, Gleason KS, Bayliss EA, et al. | Journal of General Internal Medicine

Feasible and Acceptable Social Drivers of Health Screening Among Patients with Chronic Liver Disease Kim RG, Ballantyne A, Codden RR, et al. | Hepatology Communications

Assistance

Social Service Organizations Report Improvements in Social Services-Health Care Integration in Survey During California's Medicaid Initiative ("CalAIM") Arons A, Alban-Acuna P, Simon M, et al. | BMC Public Health

A Standardized Health-System Specialty Pharmacy Approach to Identify and Address Social Determinants of Health Green S, Fitzpatrick C, Darin K, et al. | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Embedding Health-Related Social Needs Screening and Resource Navigation in a U.S. Forensic Asylum Clinic: A Pilot Intervention Arteaga Argumedo A, Uechi MT, Gartland MG, Saadi A | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Feasibility, Acceptability, and Appropriateness of Screening and Referring for Social Risks in a Community Hospital Setting Leary JC, Bagley H, Giacchetto FP, et al. | Academic Pediatrics

Addressing Caregiver Intimate Partner Violence in the Pediatric Emergency Department Smith C, Murray A | Pediatric Emergency Care

Caregiver Perspectives on the Continuum of Social Needs Care: A Qualitative Study in Pediatric Primary Care Fujii-Rios H, Lutz MR, Heckman J, et al. | Academic Pediatrics

Food interventions

Food and Housing Insecurity, Stress, and Health Care Use After Medicaid Expanded Services Program Thorndike AN, McCurley JL, Chang Y, et al. | JAMA Network Open

A Qualitative Study of Collaborative Food Programs: Insights from a FQHC-University Partnership During COVID-19 Kim M, Thang CK, Imai L, et al. | Nutrients

Frequency of Attendance to a Behavioral Intervention on Health-related Outcomes in a Multicomponent Food as Medicine Intervention Radtke MD, Xiao L, Chen WT, et al. | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Fruit and Vegetable Consumption, Household Food Insecurity, and SNAP Participation Among Attendees of Free Produce Events at Safety-Net Health Center Sites Caldwell JI, Darwish-Elsherbiny F, Macon K, et al. | Nutrients

A Case Study of Food Insecurity Screening and Referral: Implementation Barriers, Facilitators, and Lessons from a Healthcare-Food Bank Partnership Bhatia S, Siler M, Hollis-Hansen K, Schroder K, Gimpel N, Eary R | Journal of Primary Care & Community Health

Commentaries & Blogs

The Evidence for Intimate Partner Violence and Elder Abuse Screening: Stagnation at a Critical Juncture Simon, MA | JAMA

Updated USPSTF Guidelines on Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse Rittenberg E, Covinsky KE, Grady D | JAMA Internal Medicine

Addressing Food Insecurity Among US Surgical Patients Podugu P, Ho VP, Crandall ML | JAMA Surgery

Housing is Health Care | Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Let’s not Steal Equity from our Patients in the Name of Quality Hicks CD, Barnett H, Shi J, et al. | Frontiers in Public Health