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D.C. Briefing on The Supreme Court and Contraceptive Coverage: Legal and Policy Implications - Video of the policy briefing, held on March 11, 2014 (two weeks before the March 25 Supreme Court hearing) is available.
Daily HealthBeat Tip Podcasts - Link to various HealthBeat podcasts, many of which are HSR-related.
Data and Statistics: Tools - This site provides access to several NYC tools for statistical analysis, including: Epiquery, Environmental Public Health Tracking portal, Birth and Death Records, Childhood Lead Poisoning, Injury, Pregnancy Risks and The Geographical Information System (GIS) Center.
Data Harmonization Advisory Committee - Consists of members from the PHSSR community including: National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), local, state and federal systems researchers and academic institutions. Its main goal is to review the primary data survey instruments used by NACCHO, ASTHO and NALBOH to collect program activity data, governance and population data of local & state governing bodies of health throughout the nation.
Data Methods Toolkit - Provides information on qualitative methods which are most often used in implementation research and quantitative methods most often used in impact evaluation
Data Resource Center for Children and Adolescent Health Glossary of Terms - Glossary of terms.
Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities - This report presents an international perspective to the ethical and legal aspects of research. It looks as well at the General Data Protection Regulation.
Data Sets: Open Government at HHS
Database of HSR&D Citations - Updated monthly, this searchable database contains citations from journals, meetings, conferences, and reports that are credited to VA HSR&D researchers.
Database of Promoting Health Effectiveness Reviews (DoPHER) - Focused coverage of systematic and non-systematic reviews of effectiveness in health promotion and public health worldwide. This register currently contains details of over 2,500 reviews of health promotion and public health effectiveness.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation located in California that invests in and takes smart risks with innovative people and organizations to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems.
Debunk the Myths: Grant Application Video Series
December 14, 2011, Quality Net Conference - Speech by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius - This links to the speech made by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at the CMS QualityNet Conference.
DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness) Network - Collection of research centers that conduct studies on the outcomes, effectiveness, safety, and usefulness of medical treatments and services.
Delaware Health Information and Statistics - Access statistics and demographics.
Demographic and Economic Characteristics Associated with Sole County Pharmacy Closures, 2006-2010 - This brief outlines statistical data on pharmacy closures in rural areas.
Demonstrating Impact of a Model Pediatric EHR Format - This model EHR record format for children is the result of a grant to 10 states, and several states will be evaluating the project.
Department of Defense (DOD) - The DOD funds health services research studies, e.g., impact of discrimination on medical care and quality of life for breast cancer survivors; quality of care indicators for early-stage prostate cancer.
Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) - DHSS is the government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
Department of Veterans Affairs HSR&D Funding Opportunities - This page provides information on Veterans Administration HSR&D funding programs and research solicitations.
Department of Veterans Affairs/Health Services Research and Development Services (HSR&D) - Highlights HSR&D's upcoming and past meetings.
Designing an Exchange: A Toolkit for State Policymakers - Designed to provide technical assistance to states, this legislative toolkit will assist with the design of health insurance Exchanges.
Designing Consumer Health IT: A Guide for Developers and Systems Designers - This guide is aimed at IT developers, and presents the 10 recommendations that can be used to produce outstanding consumer IT products.
Designing Health Literate Mobile Apps - This discussion paper presents a case study to assist developers in creating health literate mobile apps.
Developing a Protocol for Observational Comparative Effectiveness Research: A User's Guide - The intention of this User's Guide is to identify standards and best practices for designing observational comparative effectiveness research.
Development of the Financial Alignment Demonstrations for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: Perspectives from National and State Disability Stakeholders - An issue brief outlines the issues that will face states which intend to develop demonstrations to integrate care and align financing.
Diabetes Research Centers (P30) - This grant would fund Diabetes Research Centers, designed to support research in diabetes, its complications, and related endocrine and metabolic diseases.
Directory of Health Organizations - This link provides access to a database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Each record may contain information on the publications, holdings, and services provided.
Directory of Implementation Science Training Programs (March, 2011) - This training directory lists fellowships, short-term training programs and other resources for training in the field of dissemination and implementation science (and related fields such as Knowledge Translation, etc.).
Directory of Training Programs in Health Services Research and Health Policy - A searchable database of information about U.S. and international post-baccalaureate certificate, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral programs in the fields of health services research and health policy
Disconnected Mothers and the Well-Being of Children: A Research Report - This paper looks at the well-being of children, whose mothers have become disconnected from work and welfare.
Disconnected?: Challenges of Communicating Cal MediConnect to Low-Income Older Californians - A policy note and case studies examine the change from fee-for-service to managed care for California's dual eligible population.
A Discussion with Leading Medicaid Directors: As FY 2013 Ends, Looking toward Health Care Reform Implementation in 2014 - This Issue Brief details the results of a May 2013 conversation among state Medicaid leaders concerning ACA effects on state Medicaid programs.
Disparities in Health and Health Care: Five Key Questions and Answers - This brief looks at health care disparities using several factors including race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location, age, and language.
Disparities in Mental Health Services Research - This program plans, stimulates, disseminates, and supports research on the complex factors that influence disparities in mental health services, particularly across special population groups such as racial and ethnic groups, as well as women and children, and persons living in rural and frontier areas.
Disparities Policy
Dissemination & Implementation Measurement Compendium - This white paper provides researchers with a synthesis of validated measurement tools designed to assess D&I-related constructs.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01) - This grant would identify, develop, evaluate and refine effective and efficient methods, systems, infrastructures, and strategies to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions, evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and management, and quality of life improvement services, and data monitoring and surveillance reporting tools into public health and clinical practice settings that focus on patient outcomes.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03) - This funding opportunity would support a grant to identify, develop, evaluate and refine effective and efficient methods, systems, infrastructures, and strategies to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions, evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and management, and quality of life improvement services, and data monitoring and surveillance reporting tools into public health and clinical practice settings that focus on patient outcomes.
Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21) - This research grant would identify, develop, evaluate and refine effective and efficient methods, systems, infrastructures, and strategies to disseminate and implement research-tested health behavior change interventions, evidence-based prevention, early detection, diagnostic, treatment and management, and quality of life improvement services, and data monitoring and surveillance reporting tools into public health and clinical practice settings that focus on patient outcomes.
Dissemination and Implementation Roundtable - This webinar took place on July 29, 2013. The slides and agenda are available.
Dissemination and Implementation Science Data Sources - This website provides access to related data sources and tools, compiled by CHEDIR.
Dissemination and Implementation Science Glossary - This is a glossary of dissemination and implementation science terms.
District of Columbia's Department of Health - The Mission of the Department of Health is to promote and protect the health, safety and quality of life of residents, visitors and those doing business in the District of Columbia.
Diversitydata.org
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP) - Mission is to protect patients and healthcare personnel and promote safety, quality, and value in the healthcare delivery system by providing national leadership.
Doctors and hospitals' use of health IT more than doubles since 2012 - HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than half of all doctors and other eligible providers have received Medicare or Medicaid incentive payments for adopting or meaningfully using electronic health records
DOD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs - Provides a brief description and key elements of all award mechanisms.
Dr. Know: A Knowledge Commons in Health - This paper argues for an open system of knowledge, what it would mean, and how to reach the goal.
Drug Approvals and Databases - Links to various FDA databases, i.e., Adverse Event Reporting post-marketing safety surveillance program, Orange Book, Clinical Investigator Inspection List, Bioresearch Monitoring Information System, Dissolution Methods, etc.
Drug Effectiveness Review Project (DERP) - Collaboration of the Center for Evidence-based Policy and the Oregon Evidence-based Practice Center who have joined together to produce systematic, evidence-based reviews of the comparative effectiveness and safety of drugs in many widely used drug classes, and to apply the findings to inform public policy and related activities in local settings.
Drugs and Alcohol: Open Access Sources - (Virginia Commonwealth University) - This web portal uses open access initiatives to provide drug abuse prevention, treatment, and policy stakeholders with access to journal articles, monographs, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical manuals, and education and training resources.

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