Kosali Simon, PhD, M.A., a professor with the Paul H. O’Neill Faculty of Public and Environmental Affairs and a Regenstrief Institute analysis scientist; and Katherine Baicker, PhD, College of Chicago provost, will co-lead an anticipated almost $16 million Nationwide Institutes of Well being’s (NIH) Nationwide Institute on Growing older (NIA) program to discover essential elements of healthcare supply for people dwelling with Alzheimer’s illness and associated dementias (ADRD).
This five-year analysis initiative goals to establish and deal with boundaries to equitable and efficient healthcare for this rising affected person inhabitants. The initiative will embody collaboration with the Nationwide Bureau of Financial Analysis, IU Faculty of Medication and Regenstrief’s IU Heart for Growing older Analysis.
Dr. Simon will function the mission lead for “Supplier-Affected person/Caregiver Racial Concordance and Fairness in Well being Care Techniques: Their Affect on Well being and Healthcare Outcomes for Populations with ADRD,” which is able to study these relationships between healthcare suppliers and sufferers and the way they affect healthcare use and well being outcomes. Utilizing a long time of Medicare knowledge from rural and concrete areas, the mission explores the prevalence, drivers and results. The research will examine ambulatory care settings, the place sufferers might select suppliers, to emergency departments, the place assignments are extra random.
Regenstrief analysis scientists Nicole Fowler, PhD, MHSA, and Jennifer Carnahan, M.D., MPH, M.A., will work alongside Dr. Simon on the analysis mission as co-investigators.
Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, founding director of the Sandra Eskenazi Heart for Mind Care Innovation and the Heart for Well being Innovation and Implementation Science and a analysis scientist within the IU Heart for Growing older Analysis at Regenstrief, additionally shall be a core chief for the mission.