2005 University of Michigan Poverty Research Grants
Funded research
Dr. Matthew Davis, Division of General Pediatrics.
Summer Workshop in Michigan Medicaid Research (SWiMMR)
Description
For the last 4 decades, Medicaid has served as the principal source of health insurance for the low-income non-elderly population of the United States. To an even greater extent than the majority of other states, the Michigan Medicaid program has experienced rapid growth in its enrollment over the last 3 years, and current enrollment is at unprecedented levels (>1.4 million persons).
Medicaid research, when mindful of "real-time" programmatic priorities, is highly policy relevant and can serve as an ideal opportunity for multidisciplinary teams to incorporate health services and public policy approaches in ways that answer policy questions comprehensively. This project will launch a new initiative, the Summer Workshop in Michigan Medicaid Research (SWiMMR), which is designed specifically around collaborative projects involving graduate students and faculty and will employ novel uses of existing Medicaid data to which the investigators have ready access.
The SWiMMR program has 2 overarching long-term objectives that reflect the partnership of the University of Michigan and the Michigan Medicaid program: (1) To inform Michigan Medicaid officials with timely, rigorous research regarding Medicaid programs serving a variety of disadvantaged populations in the state, and (2) To involve graduate students in public policy and public health in highly relevant public health policy research regarding disadvantaged children and adults, thereby providing practical educational experiences that may later motivate students to conduct further work in this area of inquiry
The specific aims of this proposal will be centered around central questions identified by Michigan Medicaid officials as salient, timely, and highly worthy of investigation during Summer 2005.
