Research and Policy Media Relations Manager
Gavin draws on more than 25 years of experience in communicating about science, medicine and health policy. She focuses mainly on the health services research done by members of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, who work to understand and improve the safety, quality, equity and affordability of health care. As part of the Michigan Medicine communication team, she has lead responsibility for primary care and mental health topics. Contact: [email protected]; Twitter: @Karag
Health Lab
Buprenorphine is an effective treatment of opioid use disorder, including addiction to painkillers and heroin. A bill in Congress aims to close a legal loophole that affects products containing it.
Health Lab
Low income people enrolled in the Healthy Michigan Plan, a Medicaid expansion program, experienced a rise in employment and student status larger than the statewide average.
Health Lab
Twenty years ago, research on the health impacts of being uninsured helped build the momentum that led to the Affordable Care Act. But new research shows that accessing care is still unaffordable for many, even after the ACA.
Health Lab
Institutions, called academic medical centers, combine patient care, medical and health sciences education and biomedical research. A brief history of their origins at the University of Michigan.
Health Lab
Surge in robotic surgery in 2010s outpaces the evidence for its effects on patients and costs, researchers warn.
Health Lab
Medicaid work requirements often offer exemptions for people in addiction recovery or with a substance use disorder diagnosis. But addiction treatment may be scarce in these states, especially for opioid addiction.
Health Lab
Surgical prehabilitation program that encouraged health risk reduction and positive psychology was associated with lower length of stay and costs after operations of high-risk patients.
Medicine at Michigan
Gift will expand and harness the power of massive data to help bipolar patients
Medicine at Michigan
Tadataka and Leslie Yamada’s gift will establish the U-M Center for Global Health Equity
Health Lab
Prescribing guidelines recommend the opioid overdose rescue drug naloxone for anyone taking high-dose prescription opioids, overdose survivors and people with opioid addiction. A new study shows few receive it.
Health Lab
Online reviews giving recommendations about doctors are viewed by older adults looking to choose a physician, but they factor them in with word-of- mouth reputation and more.
News Release
Today, we take them for granted. Huge university medical centers, filled with patients who travel miles to receive care that’s available nowhere else, from teams of highly specialized clinicians.
News Release
Twenty years ago, a musical experiment started on the University of Michigan campus. A group of amateur musicians, all of them working or studying in medicine and science, put out the word that they wanted to form an orchestra for people like them.
News Release
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, something extraordinary happened at the University of Michigan. Its effects have reverberated down through history – not only on the campus, but across the state and nation.
Health Lab
Older married couples facing multimorbid chronic diseases experienced a rise in depression symptoms over time if those conditions required different types of preventive care or risk reduction.
