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Medicaid Expansion Meant Better Health for Most Vulnerable Adults, U-M Study Finds

07/14/2020

A new study and report show the impact of Michigan’s safety-net health coverage, and could inform states that are now considering or preparing for expansion.

Medicaid Expansion Meant Better Health for Most Vulnerable Adults, U-M Study Finds
Medicaid Expansion in Michigan: Findings from the First Five Years of the Healthy Michigan Plan
Examination of Changes in Health Status Among Michigan Medicaid Expansion Enrollees From 2016 to 2017
Faculty: 
Susan Goold, MD, MHSA, MA
Jeffrey Kullgren, MS, MD, MPH
Research Topics: 
Medicaid
Healthcare access
Community health

Coronavirus Could Upend Cancer Trends in the U.S.

07/02/2020

In a recent TIME article, CBSSM's Director, Dr. Reshma Jagsi weighs in on how COVID-19-related delays may compromise some of the positive trends in cancer screening, early diagnosis & outcomes seen in recent years.

TIME: Coronavirus Could Upend Cancer Trends in the U.S.
Faculty: 
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil
Research Topics: 
Pandemic
cancer
Cancer screening
Treatment outcomes

Comment: States must protect health care workers who protect us

06/30/2020

In a recent commentary, CBSSM's Dr. Michele Heisler and colleague, Dr. Ranit Mishori discuss the federal government's pandemic response and how front-line workers still don’t have the supplies and safeguards they need as COVID-19 resurges.

Comment: States must protect health care workers who protect us
Faculty: 
Michele Heisler, MD, MPA
Research Topics: 
Pandemic
Shortage of PPE

Podcast: How COVID-19 has highlighted racism as a health risk

06/17/2020

It is discriminatory social and economic structures that are determining how sick patients become from the virus, argue academics in latest WORLD: we got this podcast episode. In this first of two episodes on health and racism, Professor Anne Pollock (King's College London) and CBSSM's Dr. Melissa Creary discuss the ways systemic racism — from the commoditization of bodies, to social and economic structures — has shaped the spread of COVID-19.

How COVID-19 has highlighted racism as a health risk
Faculty: 
Melissa Creary, PhD, MPH
Research Topics: 
Pandemic
Structural racism

Preparing for COVID-19 Related Drug Shortages

06/16/2020

A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines the nation’s current shortage of vitally needed medications, and how this dangerous situation is being made wors

Preparing for COVID-19 Related Drug Shortages
America Must Prepare for COVID-19 Related Drug Shortages
Investigators Urge Communication, Collaboration to Handle COVID-19 Related Drug Shortages
Faculty: 
Andrew Shuman, MD, FACS, HEC-C
Research Topics: 
Pandemic
Drug shortages

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