# National Research Meeting on Medical and Social Care Integration

> **NIH AHRQ R13** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2021 · $49,940

## Abstract

National Research Meeting on Medical and Social Care Integration
 Project Summary/Abstract
Growing awareness of the health and health equity impacts of social and economic disadvantage,
coupled with a shift towards value-based care, has resulted in a surge of interest in identifying and
mitigating social risks to improve health, health equity, quality of care, and health care costs. As a
result, providers in a wide range of settings along with both private and public payers are eager for
evidence about effective interventions related to medical and social care integration.
To help create a forum for research stakeholders in this field, in February 2019, we convened 150
researchers and implementers for a 1.5-day research meeting in Portland, Oregon that was partially
supported by a previous AHRQ R13 grant. The high yield meeting contributed to new research
collaborations and projects that continue to advance work in this area. Interest in evidence of the
effectiveness and implementation of social interventions research has only grown since February 2019,
as federal and state incentives are encouraging providers and payers to invest in social care
interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic also has brought a unique urgency to articulating and
bolstering the health sector's role in addressing social risks. More than ever, stakeholders investing in
this area can benefit from reviewing the state of the rapidly evolving science and together defining a
common agenda to advance this new field of health services research and practice. We believe that
the time is right to build on the foundation created by the 2019 meeting to convene a second national
research meeting (250-300 attendees) over two full days to showcase the latest research and stimulate
discussion and increased collaboration across disciplines and sectors.
We intend to include diverse voices and perspectives in meeting activities. As we did in 2019, we will
provide travel grants to support participation from both patient experts with lived experience with social
adversity and early career researchers from demographic groups that are under-represented in health
services research. We also will engage in multiple dissemination activities to ensure meeting content is
widely disseminated beyond the conference attendees. If the global context prohibits in-person
convening, we will hold a hybrid in-person/virtual or fully virtual meeting. The meeting supports a core
AHRQ research priority: harnessing data and technology to improve health care quality and patient
outcomes and to provide a 360-degree view of the patient.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10223852
- **Project number:** 1R13HS028366-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Laura Gottlieb
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $49,940
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-09-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10223852

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10223852, National Research Meeting on Medical and Social Care Integration (1R13HS028366-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10223852. Licensed CC0.

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