The SIREN Podcast

Insights from the Accountable Health Communities Model Final Evaluation Report

On June 8th SIREN and Camden Coalition co-hosted a webinar about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Accountable Health Communities Model Final Evaluation Repo

Quality over Quantity: Developing New Measures to Assess Patients’ Experiences of Social Care

On February 12, 2026 SIREN co-directors Danielle Hessler Jones and Laura Gottlieb and Alameda Health System Medical Director of Patient Quality, Andy Quiñones-Rivera, had

Unpacking the third AHC evaluation report

In November 2024, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) released the third evaluation report of the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model, in which

A thousand flowers bloom? A discussion about social care policy and practice decisions with California leaders

The closing plenary discussion at the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the science of social care, occurred on February 4, 2025 and featured a conversation

The next four years of social care research and policy

This plenary session held on February 3, 2025 at the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the science of social care featured a discussion between moderator An

Whose job is it, anyway? Exploring the ethics of healthcare's involvement in social care

The opening plenary session on February 3, 2025 at the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the science of social care, featured keynote speaker Lauren Taylor,

State Medicaid program requirements for community reinvestment: Will they improve health?

Medicaid community reinvestment requirements enable states to require or incentivize state contractors to reinvest in the communities they serve. State laws, waivers, and

Lessons from the Intimate Partner Violence Field: Moving beyond Surveillance and Screening toward Safety and Wellbeing: Part 2

SIREN was excited to partner with Futures Without Violence on a two-part webinar series this season. In the second event held on December 5, 2024, speakers shared their l

Lessons from the Intimate Partner Violence Field: Moving beyond Surveillance and Screening toward Safety and Wellbeing: Part 1

SIREN partnered with Futures Without Violence on a two-part webinar series this season. On November 5th, 2024 speakers discussed evidence-based and healing-centered appro

Where should healthcare invest in food security interventions? Lessons from recent research

Evidence is mounting about the impacts of interventions such as medically tailored meals and produce prescriptions on diet-related health conditions, fueling interest in

Consumer perspectives on the Camden Coalition care management RCT (Part 2 of 2)

 This is the second of a two-part webinar series on implications of the Camden Coalition’s RCT results.  In 2020, a major article on “healthcare hotspotting” may have ca

Lessons from the Camden Coalition's Care Management RCT (Part 1 of 2)

This is the first of a two-part webinar series on implications of the Camden Coalition’s RCT results.    In 2020, a major article on “healthcare hotspotting” may have c

Organizational Dilemmas in Integrating Medical and Social Care to Improve Health Equity

On March 29, 2024, the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics convened a session of the Organizational Ethics Consortia Series on social care. Addressing health ineq

New SIREN Social Care Conceptual Model

On Monday March 11th participants joined us for a conversation about the new SIREN Social Care Conceptual Model! Emerging evidence suggests that social care programs do n

What Should the Healthcare Sector’s Role Be in Addressing Adverse Social Drivers of Health?

Although there is no question that adverse social circumstances negatively impact health and healthcare outcomes, it is not clear what the healthcare sector’s role should

Lessons from Abolition Work in Other Sectors: What Can Social Care Learn?

Social care practice and research are often inspired by intentions to advance health equity. However, social care is often planned and executed without a clear recognitio

Two Poems for Poetic Health Justice: Poetry as Praxis for an Antiracist and Decolonized Future of ‘Radical Possibility’

Health research remains ensconced in a heavily positivist, reductionist, settler-colonial, racial-capitalist “ritual” of knowledge extractivism and expropriation wherein

Measuring Racial Health Equity in Social Care Research

Each year an increasing number of original research articles are published about healthcare-based social care programs and policies. However, relatively few of these stud

Actions Speak Louder: Fulfilling Social Care’s Racial Health Equity Potential

The final panel at the SIREN 2022 National Research Meeting: Racial Health Equity in Social Care featured four Experts by Experience (Lisa Hamlett, Mike McNear, Ann Reyno

Patient and Caregiver Perspectives on Social Screening in Healthcare Settings

In this episode, Sarah Coombs, the director for health system transformation at the National Partnership for Women & Families, and Janice Tufte, an active patient partner