Nov. 18, 2024:SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented at the APHA Annual Meeting in October 2024. In this presentation, Mr. Planalp reviews trends and patterns in fatal drug overdoses since the COVID-19 pandemic, including the increase in fentanyl related overdose deaths, which significantly...Read More
Aug. 28, 2024:
This presentation is a part of our Survey Data Season series where we examine data from various surveys that are released annually from the summer through early fall. Find all of the Survey Data Season series posts on our Survey Data Season 2024 page here.
On Thursday,...Read More
Sep. 28, 2023:
On Thursday, September 28th at 1:00 PM CST, SHADAC hosted a webinar covering the release of new 2022 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS).
Estimates from...Read More
Sep. 25, 2023:On Thursday, September 21, SHADAC Senior Research Fellow Colin Planalp presented a data-focused look at the national opioid crisis during a University of Minnesota Opioid Advisory Task Force forum. Colin presented his recent findings about overdoses related to four different drug categories -...Read More
Jul. 30, 2023:On July 27, 2023, SHADAC Deputy Director Elizabeth Lukanen presented to the Protecting Immigrant Families Coalition, Medicaid Unwinding Task Force. This presentation included a brief overview of the potential coverage impacts of the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage...Read More
Apr. 05, 2023:SHADAC hosted a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, April 5th to discuss the rising Medicaid undercount. With many states and stakeholders eager to understand the topic further, this webinar provided an overview of issues related to the Medicaid undercount along with relevant...Read More
Oct. 06, 2022:SHADAC Deputy Director Elizabeth Lukanen served as an expert panelist for an Alliance for Health Policy briefing hosted by Arnold Ventures titled "Better Health through Data: Opportunities and Limitations of Health Data" which was held virtually on October 6, 2022. This event reviewed the...Read More
Sep. 29, 2022:SHADAC hosted a webinar on Thursday, September 29, 2022 that provided an overview of 2011 health insurance coverage estimates from two key, large-scale federal data sources: The American Community Survey (ACS) and the Current Population Survey (CPS).
This webinar examined the new...Read More
Sep. 22, 2022:On September 19, 2022, SHADAC investigator Kathleen Thiede Call presented at the Minnesota Department of Health's Health Equity Data Community of Practice Meeting. This presentation included a guided tour of SHADAC's Minnesota Community and Uninsured Profile, along with a brief history of...Read More
Jun. 28, 2022:A committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is hosting a series of public workshops to explore potential ways to accelerate the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings in clinical practice to improve health and health care.
In the second...Read More
Feb. 03, 2022:Natalie Schwehr, SHADAC Senior Research Associate, was invited by the Center of California Studies at Sacramento State University to give a webinar presentation on Friday, January 28, as part of their "Envisioning California Speaker Series." Dr. Schwehr presented a study conducted by herself and...Read More
Jan. 19, 2022:
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been demonstrably far reaching and, by now, fairly well documented. One facet of this COVID-related disruption that has recently come to light is the interruption to data collection processes and response patterns for yearly...Read More
Sep. 21, 2021:Date: Tuesday, September 21st
Time: 3:00 PM Central / 4:00 PM Eastern
While much public attention has been given to the opioid epidemic, the United States has been quietly experiencing another growing public health crisis that surpasses opioid overdoses as a...Read More
Jun. 11, 2021:The 2021 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM) is taking place virtually this week from June 14-17. Researcher and State Health Compare manager Robert Hest will be presenting on behalf of SHADAC at the national conference. His presentations include:
Trends in Health Insurance...Read More
Jan. 12, 2021:Date: Thursday, February 4, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM Central Time / 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Across the country, states have begun the first stages of their campaigns to vaccinate people against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). However, early troubles have highlighted the challenges to...Read More
Oct. 19, 2020:
For nearly two decades, the United States has experienced a growing epidemic of drug overdose deaths. But even by standards of the rapidly evolving opioid crisis, mortality data from 2018 illustrate a stark transformation: While the U.S. recorded rare declines in death rates from...Read More
Oct. 08, 2020:
Over the past two decades, the rise in suicide death rates has continued along an accelerating climb. According to new vital statistics data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the United States suicide rate reached another historic high of 14.2 per 100,000...Read More
Sep. 29, 2020:Date: October 13, 2020
Time: 11:30 AM Central / 12:30 PM Eastern
For years response rates for random digit dial (RDD) telephone surveys have been falling and costs of conducting these surveys have been rising. With growing concerns about sample coverage and costs, many...Read More
Sep. 22, 2020:
On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, SHADAC researchers and U.S. Census Bureau experts held a webinar that examined the new 2019 health insurance coverage data at both the national and the state level, as well as by coverage type, from both the American Community Survey (ACS) and the...Read More
Sep. 05, 2019:Date: October 1, 2019
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Central / 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Eastern
New 2018 data on health insurance coverage from the American Community Survey (ACS) show a nationwide increase in uninsurance from 8.7 percent in 2017 to 8.9 percent in 2018. ...Read More