Project Title: International Symposium on Health Care Policy, Fall 2012
Principal Investigator: Robin Osborn
Date Awarded: July 12, 2011
Award Amount: $365,000
The Fund's 15th annual International Symposium on Health Care Policy will compare policies and strategies across industrialized countries for reducing the growth of health care expenditures, as aging populations drive increasing demand for health services.
Project Title: International Health Policy Survey, 2012
Principal Investigator: Roz Pierson, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: July 12, 2011
Award Amount: $470,609
The Commonwealth Fund's 2012 International Health Policy Survey will assess health care system performance from the perspective of primary care physicians.
Project Title: The State Action to Avoid Rehospitalizations (STAAR) Initiative, Phase 4
Principal Investigator: Karen Boudreau, M.D.
Date Awarded: July 12, 2011
Award Amount: $750,000
The State Action to Avoid Rehospitalizations (STAAR) initiative is a multipronged, effort intended to help hospitals improve their processes for transitioning discharged patients to other care settings.
Project Title: Evidence for Consistent Assignment: A Critical Evaluation of the Literature and Current Practices
Principal Investigator: Barbara J. Bowers, Ph.D., M.S., R.N.
Date Awarded: May 26, 2011
Award Amount: $40,000
Project Title: 2011 Educational Insert in Columbia Journalism Review
Principal Investigator: Louisa Kearney
Date Awarded: May 26, 2011
Award Amount: $28,000
Project Title: The Commonwealth Fund's Child Development and Preventive Care Program, 1999-2011
Principal Investigator: Cynthia A. Connolly, Ph.D., R.N.
Date Awarded: May 21, 2011
Award Amount: $22,731
Project Title: Inclusion of Germany in the 2011 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey
Principal Investigator: Roz Pierson, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: May 21, 2011
Award Amount: $30,100
Project Title: State Health Insurance Exchange Legislative Comparison Study: Phase One Analytic Framework
Principal Investigator: Sara Rosenbaum, J.D.
Date Awarded: May 21, 2011
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Web Content Delivery for Improving Care Transitions
Principal Investigator: Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A., M.S.
Date Awarded: May 15, 2011
Award Amount: $17,316
Project Title: Health Plan Quality Improvement Reporting Requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: Issues and Options
Principal Investigator: Lisa Simpson, M.B., B.Ch., M.P.H., F.A.A.P.
Date Awarded: May 4, 2011
Award Amount: $49,970
Project Title: An Assisted Living Consensus Process: Using Expert Collaboration to Inform Public Policy and Practices
Principal Investigator: Sheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: April 21, 2011
Award Amount: $27,491
Project Title: 7th Australia-New Zealand Health Services and Policy Research Conference
Principal Investigator: Jonathan Karnon, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: April 21, 2011
Award Amount: $5,000
Project Title: Health Affairs Paper Cluster: Key Implementation Issues for Employer Participation in the Insurance Exchanges
Principal Investigator: Susan Dentzer, M.A.
Date Awarded: April 21, 2011
Award Amount: $110,000
Project Title: Assessing the Harvard Minority Health Policy Fellowship Program
Principal Investigator: Jack Hoadley, Ph.D.
Date Awarded: April 21, 2011
Award Amount: $50,000
Project Title: Lessons Learned from Japan as a Model for Containing Health Care Costs
Principal Investigator: Naoki Ikegami, M.D., Ph.D., M.A.
Date Awarded: April 21, 2011
Award Amount: $13,000