The Commonwealth Fund
$1,286,768
Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy, 2007-08
As Harkness Fellows emerge as policy leaders and change agents in their home countries, the Fund can see the longer-term payoff from its investment. Seven classes of Harkness Fellows came together in July 2005 for the first Harkness Alumni Reunion, a two-day policy retreat cosponsored by the Fund and the U.K.-based Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation. Meanwhile, the Fund's announcement of the new German Harkness Fellowships elicited an outstanding pool of applicants, and two German Harkness Fellows were chosen in January 2006. Support for a 10th fellowship class, to be selected by early 2007, will allow the Fund to continue to develop promising junior policy researchers and practitioners from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
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Robin Osborn
Vice President
One East 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
(212) 606-3809
ro@cmwf.org
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The Commonwealth Fund
$273,700
International Symposium on Health Care Policy, Fall 2006
The Fund's ninth annual International Symposium on Health Care Policy will focus on the efforts of industrialized countries to achieve a high performance health care system. In bringing together leading policymakers and researchers from Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States-as well as other selected European countries-the symposium will highlight for U.S. policymakers the ways in which health systems are ensuring coverage, improving quality, and achieving greater efficiency. To reach a broad policy audience, the Fund will webcast a health ministers' roundtable discussion; in addition, the second day of the symposium will be held on Capitol Hill. Insights gained from these other nations will be valuable to the work of the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System. Commissioned papers from the symposium will be submitted for publication as Health Affairs Web Exclusives.
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Robin Osborn
Vice President
One East 75th Street
New York, NY 10021
(212) 606-3809
ro@cmwf.org
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Harris Interactive, Inc.
$407,000
International Health Policy Survey, 2006
The 2006 International Health Policy Survey, the ninth in an annual series of surveys commissioned by the Fund, will assess health care system performance from the physician's perspective. Conducted in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the survey will explore how doctors perceive the quality of care in their countries and what factors they view as impeding or supporting high-quality, efficient, patient-centered care. The survey's findings, which will be released at the Fund's 2006 International Symposium, should generate substantial interest among health ministers, policymakers, researchers, and the media; they will also inform the work of the Commission on a High Performance Health System. Project staff will submit an analysis of survey results to Health Affairs for Web publication.
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Jordon Peugh
Research Director
161 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013
(212) 539-9706
jpeugh@harrisinteractive.com
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Johns Hopkins University
$60,000
Cross-National Comparisons of Health Systems Quality Data, 2006
Comparisons of the U.S. health care system and those of other industrialized countries reveal striking differences in spending, availability and use of services, and health outcomes. This project will produce the ninth paper in an annual series of analyses of key health data for the 30 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The authors will provide an update of overall trends in health systems' performance, with an emphasis on health spending, coverage, hospital capacity and utilization, pharmaceutical costs, availability and use of technology, trends in health manpower supply and demand, and quality of care. Findings from the analysis will be submitted to the journal Health Affairs for Web publication and used by the Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System. In addition, a chartpack featuring key data from the OECD database will be updated as a resource for journalists, policymakers, and researchers.
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Gerard F. Anderson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Center for Hospital Finance and Management
Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 North Broadway, Room 302 Hampton House
Baltimore, MD 21205
(410) 955-3241
ganderso@jhsph.edu
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Small Grants—International Health Care Policy and Practice
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Brigham and Women's Hospital
$35,000
The Adoption of Clinical Information Technology in Five Countries
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Ashish Jha, M.D.
Assistant Professor in Medicine
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 432-5551
ajha@partners.org
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Center for Quality of Care Research
$32,600
Expansion of the 2006 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians to include the Netherlands
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Richard Grol
Director
P.O. Box 9101
6500 HB Nijmegen
Nijmegen, Netherlands 6500 HB
31 24 3619057
r.grol@kwazo.umcn.ni
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Harris Interactive, Inc.
$25,000
Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians, Expansion to Include the Netherlands: Data Processing Supplement
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Jordon Peugh
Research Director
161 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10013
T(212) 539-9706
jpeugh@harrisinteractive.com
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Northwestern University
$22,015
National Patient Safety Education Project
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Linda L. Emanuel, M.D.
Director and Buehler Professor of Geriatric Medicine
750 North Lake Shore Drive, Suite 601
Chicago, IL 60611-2611
(312) 503-2772
I-emanuel@northwestern.edu
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The King's Fund
$38,000
King's Fund-Commonwealth Fund Meeting on Strategies to Improve Quality and Cost Effectiveness of Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions
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Jennifer Dixon
Director of Policy
11-13 Cavendish Square
London W1M OAN
England
020 7307 2480
j.dixon@kingsfund.org.uk
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The Office of the New Zealand Health and Disability Commissioner
$12,275
Patient Motives for Medico-legal Action
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Ronald J. Paterson
Level 10, Tower Centre
45 Queen Street
P.O. 1791
Auckland, New Zealand
011-64-9-373-1071
rpaterson@hdc.org.nz
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The Regents of the University of California
$50,000
Second International Meeting on Developing Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems
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Neal Halfon, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics
10845 Le Conte Avenue
Box 956939
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6939
(310) 206-1898
nhalfon@ucla.edu
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