Are We Growing the Right Health Services Research Workforce of the Future? Thoughts from a National Delivery System

At the height of debates over the Affordable Care Act, Reed Tuckson (then a VP at United Healthcare) implored the audience of health service researchers, “You wanted to be relevant—well, now's your chance. Don't screw it up!” The community of health services researchers stepped up to the challenge of assessing the complex impacts of health care reform over the last 5 years (Blumenthal, Abrams, and Nuzum 2015; Hsu 2016; Long et al. 2017). But we need health services researchers for much more than analysis of Federal health policy. To remain “relevant”, researchers will need to be more flexible, nimble, entrepreneurial, collaborative, and innovative.

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Atkins D. Are We Growing the Right Health Services Research Workforce of the Future? Thoughts from a National Delivery System. Health Services Research. 2018;53:4034-4040. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.13032