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ACT Center Newsletter
The ACT Center shares new findings, resources, and stories in our free quarterly newsletter. You can sign up to receive our newsletter here and view featured content from our most recent issue below and in the sidebar. PDFs of our past issues are also available on this page.
Our most recent newsletter: Fall 2026
Our fall issue features results from a new ACT Center study that found that patient-centered opioid safety committees can help lower high-dose opioid prescriptions in primary care. We also share updates on several other ACT Center projects — from improving access to mental health care to helping prevent rehospitalizations to developing tools to streamline GLP-1 prescribing and follow-up in primary care.
Read about how the ACT Center helped implement a practical new approach to cervical cancer screening, along with updates from our work to improve care in the safety net.
Recapping highlights from our collaborations with Kaiser Permanente and community organizations in 2025 — and expressing gratitude for our many partnerships.
How Kaiser Permanente works with SONNET and the ACT Center to address members’ social needs, insights on the future of AI and the primary care workforce, and more!
Announcing 3 new scholars for the LHS E-STAR training program, along with several new papers on various aspects of social health, including links to cost and utilization.
Improving pain care by restoring patient-clinician trust, understanding how social health is linked to intersectional identities, and more highlights from our recent findings.
Introducing the Toolkit for Managing Persistent Pain, bridging the gap between research and care delivery, and a call for stronger focus on health equity in learning health systems training.
Patient and family engagement, clinical innovation opportunities for family practice residents, reducing missed visits with predictive analytics, and more.
Transforming behavioral health services in Oregon, patient-centered care to improve opioid safety for people with persistent pain, new findings and resources to advance social health, and more.
