Picking Your Brain Podcast: Bridging Barriers in TBI Care

Picking Your Brain Podcast: Bridging Barriers in TBI Care

By: Alexandra de Leon Date: March 25th, 2024

In episode 13 of the Picking Your Brain podcast, Department of Veterans Affairs researchers and Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (TBICoE) clinical experts discuss the “Improving Health care Engagement and Access to Optimize Long-Term Outcomes” study, or I-HEAL. The study, run by Dr. Risa Richardson at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Dr. Megan Moore at the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, and Dr. Jolie Haun at the Department of Veteran Affairs, addresses the barriers that individuals with TBI face when accessing high-quality, evidence-based health care, highlighting the importance of collaboration between the DOD and VA.

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The HIPRC is a part of the study team on the “Improving Health care Engagement and Access to Optimize Long-Term Outcomes” study, or I-HEAL. The proposal includes four synergistic projects with the goal to address key knowledge gaps that will improve access and engagement in high-quality, evidence-based healthcare services for Veterans and Service Members (V/SM) with TBI morbidity. Collectively the four projects propose to accomplish the following overarching objectives of the FPA:

  • Adapt existing interventions to promote access and engagement in healthcare;
  • Engage stakeholder communities to maximize uptake and translation;
  • Promote research translation that informs policy and practice through knowledge translation products and deliverables targeting key stakeholders (clinicians, Veterans, service members, caregivers, policymakers, and other researchers);
  • Facilitate research and implementation to enhance access to high-quality healthcare for V/SM with TBI-related morbidity;
  • Foster development of early/mid-career researchers in advancing implementation science research on access to care for V/SM with TBI.

 

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