Policy Engagement & External Relations

Together, we can help you engage with the right stakeholders and effectively communicate your findings and expertise to inform and transform health policy and practice

IHPI’s Policy Engagement & External Relations (PEER) team assists IHPI members who seek to have a greater impact on health policy and practice through their research. We offer members advice, strategies, and tools around policy engagement. Specifically, we can help you to:

Translate your research: Communicate your findings in clear, compelling messages and articulate the implications for policy and practice.
Reach the right audiences: Identify and share your work with key stakeholders such as health system leaders, payers, provider groups, public health leaders, associations, policymakers, and others.
Elevate your expertise: Identify opportunities such as fellowships, advisory committees, events, trainings, and other avenues to hone your skills as well as share your expertise with key stakeholders and decisionmakers at the local, state, and federal levels.
Create policy-relevant products: Advise you on creating accessible, easy-to-understand one-pagers, policy briefs, visual abstracts, and other materials.
Prepare to engage: Advise you on best practices and tips for meetings with key stakeholders, legislative testimony, public comments, and other opportunities.

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IHPI’s Policy Engagement & External Relations team is available to meet one-on-one to review your research, engagement interests, and provide strategies that can help increase your impact on health policy and practice discussions.

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Policy engagement opportunities and resources

Policy Engagement Interest Group

The Policy Engagement Interest Group brings together IHPI members who want to stay informed about state and federal policy discussions and engage with IHPI colleagues who share an interest in health policy.

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Policy Brief Open Call

Do you want to translate your policy or practice-relevant research into something external stakeholders and decisionmakers will read and use, but you aren’t sure where to start? Apply to work with us to produce a polished IHPI policy brief that translates your findings to maximize their reach!

If you have an accepted or recently published manuscript with timely, policy-relevant findings, IHPI can help distill your research and get it into the hands of key stakeholders and decisionmakers.

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Policy Engagement Tools

Policy Engagement & Communications Resource Guides: Includes tools and advice for preparing for meetings with policymakers, testifying, writing briefs and one-pagers, submitting public comments, and more.
Health Policy Training & Engagement Opportunities

Impact Accelerator Program: Policy and Communications Training

This three-day training program helps IHPI members expand the reach and visibility of their work, enabling them to make meaningful contributions to health policy and practice discussions, debates, and decisions.

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Policy Impact Award

This annual award is given to select IHPI members to recognize their contributions and impacts on health policy or practice at the local, state, national, or international level.

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Meet the Team