The New York Academy of Medicine: Initiatives: Division of Health Policy

Division of Health Policy

The Division of Health Policy (DHP) is focused on the improvement of health among society’s most vulnerable populations including immigrants, people of color, children, the elderly, people living in poverty, people with HIV/AIDS, and drug users. Created in 2005 as a consolidation of the Office of Special Populations (OSP) and the Division of Health and Science Policy (HSP), the Division of Health Policy combines OSP’s emphasis on disadvantaged populations with HSP’s focus on addressing problems related to cost, quality, and access. Consistent with the objectives listed below, DHP projects work to affect change at the policy, community, institutional, provider, and individual level. Specifically, DHP works to:

Expand the capacity of communities and institutions to identify, plan for, and meet the needs of populations with particular needs and barriers to care, especially immigrants, the elderly, people living in poverty, and people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS or other serious illnesses;
Demonstrate the effectiveness of a broadened definition of health policy, which focuses on problems and solutions that involve affected populations, their family members, providers, employers, government, and other community resources;
Reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS in this country by promoting access to high quality health care for all people living with HIV/AIDS and through the development of programs, processes, and policies to enhance HIV/AIDS prevention;
Improve access to linguistically and culturally appropriate preventive and other health care services for immigrants;
Assist the elderly to maintain their quality of life by supporting and strengthening the capacity of both formal and family caregivers; and
Promote the integration of high quality substance abuse treatment into other health services at the provider, programmatic and policy levels and diminish stigma around substance use and its treatment.

In addition to the information provided about our projects on The New York Academy of Medicine website, DHP has separate websites devoted to three of our national projects: Integrated Buprenorphine and HIV Care Evaluation and Support Center (www.bhives.org), Evaluation of Physician Clinical Support System: An Educational Resource for Those Treating Patients with Opioid Dependence (www.pcssmentor.org) and The Center for Adherence Support Evaluation (www.case.nyam.org).

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