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Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP)
AISP is an initiative funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through a grant to University of Pennsylvania Professors Dennis Culhane, School of Social Policy and Practice, and John Fantuzzo, Graduate School of Education. The principal aim of AISP is to improve the quality of education, health and human service agencies’ policies and practices through the use of integrated data systems. Quality integrated data systems are designed to help executive leaders in municipal, county, and state government evaluate and establish effective programs for the people they serve. From 2009-2012 AISP concentrated on three main objectives: 1) promoting a professional network; 2) establishing guidelines for practice; and 3) demonstrating research and analytic capacities that integrated data systems enable. AISP’s activities during this time built support for the efforts of state, county, and municipal education, health and human service agencies to improve their use of data for policy analysis and program improvement. Currently, AISP continues to work on the above aims while focusing intently on the following three key goals: 1) developing the capacities of existing and new IDS sites; 2) demonstrating uses of IDS for policy and program reforms; and 3) identifying opportunities for innovation in the development and use of IDS.
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AcademyHealth State-University Partnership Learning Network (SUPLN)
AcademyHealth facilitates the State-University Partnership Learning Network to support evidence-based state health policy and practice with a focus on transforming Medicaid-based health care. The Learning Network supports state-based partnerships between Medicaid policymakers and their resident state university research institutions to improve the patient experience with care, improve the health of populations, and reduce the per capita cost of health care. Through regular in-person and virtual convenings, member partnerships share best practices and learn from experts about substantive and process issues.
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Seton Hall University School of Law, Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy
The Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy exists primarily to educate lawyers and health care industry professionals regarding the extraordinarily complex set of laws that govern patients, health care providers, manufacturers and suppliers. Furthermore, Center faculty and researchers produce scholarship and recommendations for policy on the varied and complex issues posed by health and pharmaceutical law. The Center fosters informed dialogue among policymakers, consumer advocates, the medical profession and industry in the search for solutions to the ethical, legal, and social questions presented in the health and pharmaceutical arena. As part of its educational mission, the Center is a leader in providing compliance education and training on the wide-ranging state, federal, and international mandates that apply to the development, safety, use and promotion of drugs and devices.
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New Jersey Health Initiatives
New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI), a statewide grant making program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports innovative approaches to resolve health and health care needs in New Jersey. CSHP partners with NJHI on state policy and program evaluation issues.
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