I've spent the better part of the year working on this, but it's really the outcome of a decade of work dating back to the Paradigm Project. The key question then was how do we build a better, more durable, more impactful evidence system. The Blueprint gives us a point from which to start.

@aaronecarroll.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do we build a federal health evidence system that holds up under any administration? AcademyHealth's new Blueprint is our nonpartisan, agency-by-agency attempt to answer that question. blueprint.academyhealth.org

11,000 Eleven. Thousand. -parents -neighbors -coworkers -friends -children

🌬Breeze@cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

Behind every canceled AHRQ grant is a patient, a clinician, a research team, and years of work. We asked researchers what cancellations have meant for their projects. Their stories reveal what patients and health systems stand to lose when health services research is interrupted. buff.ly/MiwiGmo

What Researchers Told Us After Their AHRQ Grants Were Canceled

AcademyHealth asked affected researchers to share what AHRQ grant cancellations have meant for their work, revealing what patients, clinicians, and health systems stand to lose.

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When the AHRQ cancellations started, no one was giving the public a clear picture of what was being lost. My team built one. This is research that makes care safer and more affordable. Americans deserve to know what's happening to it. Researchinterrupted.academyhealth.org

Research Interrupted: Canceled AHRQ Grants | AcademyHealth

When health care research stops, the answers stop with it. Explore AcademyHealth's interactive tracker on canceled AHRQ research grants and lost funding.

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AHRQ grant cancellations are no longer theoretical, they're happening. We've heard from many researchers and institutions affected by notices ending continuation funding for ongoing projects. Read what we know so far, why these cancellations matter, and how we're responding.

AHRQ Has Begun Canceling Research Grants. Here's What We Know.

Researchers across the country have begun receiving official notices from AHRQ informing them that continuation funding for their grants will not be awarded.

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Did you write your comment yet on the OMB rules on federally funded science yet? No? Don’t worry, you can do it this weekend. Here are some resources that can help you get started.

What she says 👇 👇 👇 👇

Miranda Yaver@mirandayaver.bsky.social · 5mo ago

House Appropriations released its FY27 bill, again working to eliminate Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which it calls "duplicative." My friend/colleague @sundermannaj.bsky.social & I wrote on AHRQ's necessity. thehill.com/opinion/heal... appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

In this Situation Report, we explain what a proposed OMB rule could mean for federally funded research and why the July 13 comment deadline matters. Learn what’s at stake for scientific independence, health services research, and public health, and how you can get involved. buff.ly/oHYzvpV

The Comment Period That Could Define Federal Research for a Generation

Submit a comment on a new proposed rule that would introduce ideological constraints to federally funded research by July 13.

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Please contact your member of Congress and submit a comment on the new policy to (further) politicize science, and encourage others to do so. You don’t have to be a scientist! Some very good guidnace here: bsky.app/profile/eliz...

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

A proposed Trump policy would put Russ Vought in charge of American science. Its an example of the slow creep of politicization into processes that both parties traditionally understood as needing nonpartisan and expert guidance. What can you do about it? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-creep-...

The Creep of Politicization

A new assault on science highlights a broader pattern

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The removal of USPSTF leadership threatens the independent process behind free preventive care used by millions of Americans. With vacancies, a stalled Task Force, and a looming nomination deadline, access to life-saving screenings could be at risk. Read our statement: buff.ly/h66Zx2p

AcademyHealth CEO @aaronecarroll.bsky.social is featured in a new CNN story on access to no-cost preventive care. As Aaron told CNN, “No single specialist has deep expertise across all of them.” This shapes what care patients can access. Read the story: www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/h...

RFK Jr. wants to add specialists to preventive care panel. Experts say it’s the wrong move | CNN

Less than a year after remaking a key vaccine advisory committee, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has set his sights on overhauling an HHS panel of medical experts that de...

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Following testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee, we released a statement on the USPSTF and AHRQ. We welcome steps to restore the Task Force’s work, while underscoring that independence and fully functioning agencies are essential to preventive care. Read more: buff.ly/qm6o6eE

So far this morning I've read no less than 3 articles saying Kennedy plans to replace USPSTF members. Each links to the request for nominations posted yesterday. The notice was also WITHDRAWN yesterday. Convenient. Here's Politico's version of the story: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

It's not. (Y'all knew that.) AcademyHealth submitted testimony to the House last week, and similar to Senate last night. academyhealth.org/blog/2026-04... House deadline passed but you can join the fight for AHRQ and submit to the Senate here: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Shande Farmisht@pjt1919.bsky.social · 6mo ago

#AHRQ RFK Jr told the ways & means committee that AHRQ has hundreds of staff & run by this guy There are less than 100 staff due to massive firing last yr & others fleeing How exactly is the FY26 $345M being spent to make health care safer? @firedbutfighting.bsky.social @standupforscience.net

In other news, if you know me, you know I love voting and poll workers. So it was great fun taking my newly minted 18 yo to cast his first vote today!

Health policy debates are full of dueling studies and conflicting claims. AcademyHealth's new series breaks down what we know, what we don't, and why smart people might disagree. The first edition looks at CAP's recent health cost proposal. See here academyhealth.org/publications...

The Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its fight to slash NIH support for research indirect costs. www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t...

The FY27 AHRQ organizational sign‑on letter is now open. We’re urging Congress to fund AHRQ at $500 million and ensure the agency has the staff needed to restart grantmaking and support core research. Organizations can sign here:

Friends of AHRQ FY27 Appropriations Request

Dear Chair Capito, Ranking Member Baldwin, Chair Aderholt, and Ranking Member DeLauro: To meet the needs of America’s patients, researchers, providers, and health systems, XX organizations call for…

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The alt text on these photos is {chef's kiss}

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 8mo ago

This is Elain, Rhysand, and Cassian. The mischievous trio ingested something toxic, making them all very sick. Thanks to your support of our merch, @15outof10.org was able to cover their $9,400 hospital bill. They all made a full recovery, and each of the puppies found a forever home ❤️‍🩹

I had this exact conversation at our gathering. This ad gave me the chills in all the wrong ways.

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.

What talent. What timeless message.

Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Strong endorse for this line of thinking. I worked the polls 2020-24 and learned SO MUCH about the existing safeguards. I love it, and can bore you with a full treatise on how Virginia's elections are secure. (I missed 2025 because life got in the way and I missed the deadline to renew my oath.)

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9mo ago

If you're nervous about the midterms, channel that energy into helping secure them.

Vladislav Bellous, winner of 2025 Health Datapalooza Challenge HealthOS: a new kind of operating system designed to build a single, unified picture of an individual's health by connecting their entire journey—from routine check-ups ➡️ deep molecular profile. #hdpalooza @academyhealth.bsky.social

Not my usual content, but this post, and the responses made me smile this morning.

Michael Stipe@michaelstipe.bsky.social · last yr.

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

AcademyHealth and partners just won a major legal victory: HHS will restore scores of federal public health webpages removed earlier this year. This win for evidence & transparency wouldn’t have been possible without our members sharing their stories. Read more: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-09...

Health care doesn’t need more buzzwords. It needs ideas that actually work in the real world. That’s what #hdpalooza is all about—figuring out how we move from innovation to implementation. I’ll be there this September. Want to join me? Register here: academyhealth.org/page/2025-hd...

BREAKING: Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF expert panel that to some degree controls which preventative services are covered under insurance with its recommendations. No reason was given. More @statnews.com: 🩺 www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/u...

Kennedy abruptly cancels preventative care committee meeting

HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF, an expert panel that evaluates the nation’s preventative care recommendations.

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News: Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF, the key expert panel that evaluates the nation’s preventative care recommendations. Via @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/u...

Kennedy abruptly cancels preventative care committee meeting

HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has abruptly canceled a meeting of the USPSTF, an expert panel that evaluates the nation’s preventative care recommendations.

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