Davis, Adler-Milstein and Bagley win IHPI Impact Accelerator Awards

At the annual IHPI Member Forum on November 12, 2015, three faculty were announced as the winners of this year's IHPI Impact Accelerator Awards. 

The award recognizes members who demonstrate a commitment to impacting policy or practice. Early to mid-career, and senior faculty, are selected for the awards by a committee of judges, based on their high quality research, engagement with policy makers and an endorsement from an “end-user” of research. Winners were awarded $1,000 in their faculty accounts and had a research brief about their work written by IHPI communications staff.

Matthew Davis, M.D., MAPP - Senior faculty winner

Connecting health research & health policy

Davis is Deputy Director of IHPI, a Professor of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases and Internal Medicine at the Medical School, Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Health and director of the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.

He was recognized for research and policy efforts over the past three years that contributed to the design of the Healthy Michigan Plan, and his service as the Chief Medical Executive of the state from 2013-15, tackling vaccinations,e-cigarettes, Ebola and many other public health issues.

Julia Adler-Milstein, Ph.D. - Junior faculty winner

Coming down from the Tower of Babel

Adler-Milstein is an Assistant Professor in both the School of Information and the School of Public Health. 

She was recognized for her research on the policy & organizational determinants of health information technology adoption & impact on quality and cost of health care. Her work has been cited in a report from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS on information blocking, and she was appointed to the Task Force on Clinical, Technical, Organizational and Financial Barriers to Interoperability organized by the Office of the National Coordinator.

Nicholas Bagley, J.D. - Junior faculty winner

Giving the pendulum a push 

Bagley, an assistant professor in the U-M Law School, was recognized for Influential writings about legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, most notably in the recent Supreme Court case of King v. Burwell. He was a key participant in a May 2015 summit organized by the U-M V-BID Center & Milbank Memorial Fund to help states consider alternative state-based exchange options, and  his work explaining the legal underpinnings of court cases about aspects of the ACA will continue to have lasting impact.

See the 2014 winners here

Read more about the Impact Accelerator, which brings together IHPI's efforts around communication and outreach to policymakers, here.