Materials now available from SIREN National Research Meeting

If you missed our conference in San Diego in February, wanted to send Lauren Taylor’s thought-provoking keynote to all of your colleagues, or just suffered from concurrent session FOMO, we’ve got you covered! Visit our website to view video recordings and slides from the SIREN 2025 NRM.

In early April, watch out for a special issue of Health Services Research that will include all of the 2025 National Research Meeting abstracts.

Registration is open for upcoming SIREN webinar: Unpacking the third AHC evaluation report

In November 2024, the Center for Medicaid and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) released the third evaluation report of the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model, in which Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries in 28 communities were screened for social risks and offered navigation to help resolve identified risks. The 177-page report is chock-full of interesting findings. Join us for a webinar on May 8th 11am-12pm PST/2-3pm EST to unpack the report’s findings with Dawn Alley, former director of the AHC Model at CMMI and Head of Scale at IMPaCT Care and SIREN Co-Directors Caroline Fichtenberg and Danielle Hessler-Jones.

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 at 5pm ET. Click here for more details.

Medicaid Innovation Collaborative’s Application for SDOH tech-enabled solutions
The Medicaid Innovation Collaborative (MIC) is seeking private-sector solutions to address food and nutrition insecurity, housing affordability and quality, and transportation services for low-income Americans in Colorado, New Mexico, and Virginia. For more information and to apply, click here.

Webinars

SIREN: Unpacking the Third AHC Evaluation Report – May 8, 2025 11am PT/2pm ET

Meetings & Conferences

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 | Applications for Beehive stations are open until May 7, 2025.

HealthBegins: Complying in Advance: Understanding Risks and Opportunities for Health Equity Work In a Time of Uncertainty – Originally broadcast February 25, 2025

Manatt Health: Health Policy in 2025: Changes for U.S. and U.K. Digital Health and Life Sciences Industries – Originally broadcast March 13, 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 

Implementing Social Determinants of Health Screening in US Emergency Departments Loo S, Molina M, Ahmad NJ, et al. | JAMA Network Open

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

Health-Related Social Needs, Methods, and Concerns for a Polysocial Risk Score: An Expert Panel Vest JR, McNamee C, Musey PI Jr | American Journal of Managed Care

Screening for Food Insecurity: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations

Screening for Food Insecurity: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement US Preventive Services Task Force, Nicholson WK, Silverstein M, et al. | JAMA

Preventive Services for Food Insecurity: Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force O'Connor EA, Webber EM, Martin AM, Henninger ML, Eder ML, Lin JS | JAMA

US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for Screening for Food Insecurity: Silver Linings Amid a Cloudy Future Garg A, Branley CE, Montez K | JAMA

Assistance

Medicaid Spending and Health-Related Social Needs in the North Carolina Healthy Opportunities Pilots Program Berkowitz SA, Archibald J, Yu Z, et al. | JAMA

Impact of Hospital and Health System Initiatives to Address Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in the United States: A Scoping Review of the Peer-Reviewed Literature Rangachari P, Thapa A | BMC Health Services Research

Enhancing Referrals to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program through Clinical Integration of a Standards-Based Decision Support System Oliveira E, Hautala M, Henry J, et al. | Applied Clinical Informatics

Facilitators and Barriers to Reach and Enrollment into a Medically Tailored Meals Program Within a Section 1115 Medicaid Pilot: Clinic Staff Perspectives Folta SC, Burch J, Alcusky M, et al. | Frontiers in Public Health

Exploring Approaches to Mental Health Treatment and the Critical Role of Partnerships Among Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs Withrow A, Voith LA, Russell KN, Burkhart K, Korsch-Williams AE, Lee H | Social Work in Public Health

Participation in Clinic-Based Referral and Navigation Services Among Families with Social Needs Seide A, Thomas Uwemedimo O, Rasul R, et al. | JAMA Network Open

Social care in specialty care settings

Rideshare Services for Transportation Assistance in Gynecologic Oncology: A Quality Improvement Study Smith AJ, Pancoe S, Lynch MP, et al | BMC Health Services Research

Diapers at the Doctor: Addressing Diaper Need in a Pediatric Clinic Lee M, Bruce JS, Sinclair S, et al. | Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

The Program Cost Effectiveness of a Safety-Net Hospital Program Expanding Social Needs Activities in Atlanta MacLeod KE, Roy K, Wirth D, et al. | Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved

Provision of Social Care Services by Mental and Behavioral Health Organizations Iott BE, Doan TT | Psychiatric Services

Interventions to Address Cancer-Related Financial Hardship: A Scoping Review and Call to Action Wheeler SB, Thom B, Waters AR, Shankaran V | JCO Oncology Practice

Provider and Staff Perspectives on Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health During Perinatal Care: Implications Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research Allen SE, Goodman DJ, Bielaski T, et al. | Womens Health Issues

Co-Producing a Health Advocate Intervention for Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Using Human-Centered Design Cheung T, Squires JE, Bautista B, et al. | Liver Transplantation 

Tools & Toolkits

Using Housing Data to Address Medi-Cal Member Needs: A Guide for Managed Care Plans Klurfeld A, Schulman M | Center for Health Care Strategies

Commentaries & Blogs

Pediatrics Leading the Way: Co-Enrollment as the Next Step in Health-Related Social Needs Screening and Referral Ettinger de Cuba S, Ruemmele C, Poblacion A | Current Opinion in Pediatrics

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