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Good Apple is now Farmhouse Delivery

April 27, 2022

Beginning on May 2, Good Apple will merge with Farmhouse Delivery to continue providing delicious, locally grown produce to Austinites.

Early Bird: a Pilot to Improve Children’s Health & Educational Attainment

April 22, 2022

The Impact Factory — a collaboration between Dell Medical School and the LBJ School of Public Affairs that fosters social innovation, entrepreneurship and service-learning at The University of Texas at Austin — has partnered with United Way for Greater Austin, Foundation Communities, my529 and Lone Star Circle of Care to launch Early Bird. Early Bird is a health system-integrated scholarship program for children in poverty, and it is a part of several clinics in Central Texas.

White House taps UT's Dr. Michael Hole for national health equity initiative

Jan. 12, 2022

The Biden-Harris administration has invited Dr. Michael Hole of The University of Texas at Austin to participate in its newly formed and nonpartisan Health Equity Leaders Roundtable. The White House Office of Public Engagement has created a roundtable series featuring a small group of cross-sector leaders from across the United States to jointly explore how the federal government might further leverage innovation and technology to advance health equity nationally.

Applying Value Chain Thinking to Social Drivers of Health: A Framework and Two Case Studies

Dec. 1, 2021

Value chain thinking is an essential component to bring about successful collaboration among the distinct stakeholders involved in social drivers of health programs. Two case studies describe the importance of grounding such efforts in the value propositions that matter to the participants (patients or health plan members) and the partners (health care providers, payers, and community-based organizations) and, accordingly, of minimizing the friction that may be associated with the linking of the various program components.

Anti-Poverty Medicine Through Medical-Financial Partnerships: A New Approach to Child Poverty

Nov. 2, 2021

Michael Hole has co-authored an article in Academic Pediatrics: "Anti-Poverty Medicine Through Medical-Financial Partnerships: A New Approach to Child Poverty"

Opinion: Health experts should help Texas reimagine its energy policies

March 28, 2021

"As leaders work to prevent future catastrophes, we urge a cross-sector approach with our communities’ most vulnerable people at the center of every discussion," write Impact Factory Innovator-in-Residence Mary Beth Bennett and Dr. Michael K. Hole in the Austin American-Statesman.

Opinion: Electric school buses are a win for kids' health, the environment, and our community

March 12, 2021

"Pre-pandemic, about one in four AISD students rode the bus to school, and studies show these children breathe four times the amount of diesel fumes inhaled by children who ride in private vehicles," writes Impact Factory Innovator-in-Residence Mary Beth Bennett with fellow Dell Med students Madeline Hanes and Sanjana Ravi. "As children from low-income families are more likely to rely on school buses for transportation, disparities in diesel fume exposure exacerbate existing health inequities."