AHRQ Names Winner of Social Determinants of Health Challenge Competition, Announces New Contest

AHRQ Director Gopal Khanna, M.B.A., today announced the winner of a Challenge grant. Mathematica, a research and policy organization based in Princeton, New Jersey, was named the grand-prize winner of the Visualization Resources of Community-Level Social Determinants of Health Challenge, which comes with a $50,000 award. Director Khanna made the announcement at AcademyHealth’s Health Datapalooza conference in Washington, D.C. He also announced a new Challenge focusing on digital solutions to support care transitions. That Challenge will offer a total of $175,000 for innovations that propose technological solutions that ease administrative and information management burdens and support patient activation and engagement, especially among Americans with low health literacy or limited English language proficiency. Access more information, including the list of the runners-up and finalists for the Social Determinants of Health Challenge, more information about the Digital Solutions to Support Care Transitions, a press release and an AHRQ Views blog post by Director Khanna.