University of San Francisco California
SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care
SIREN's third national research conference, “Advancing the Science of Social Care” took place at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside in San Diego, California on February 2-4, 2025.
The SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting brought together social care researchers, practitioners, community members, advocates, and policymakers to foster shared learning about the healthcare sector’s investments in social care programs and policies. The conference’s primary goals were to:
- Share and examine recent research on social and medical care integration and alignment;
- Identify and prioritize filling persistent research gaps in this field; and
- Foster new collaborations to deepen effectiveness and implementation research, community-engaged research, and the translation of research to practice
This conference was made possible through the foundational support of the Kaiser Permanente National Community Benefit Fund at The East Bay Community Foundation. A list of co-sponsors is included below.
2025 National Research Meeting Advisors: Rebekah Angove, Patient Advocate Foundation; Katie Coleman, Kaiser Permanente; Alexandra Corley, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Alex Erkenbeck, Kaiser Permanente; Njeri Grevious, Lived experience advisor; Asha Immanuelle, Center for Black Women’s Wellness, Consultant; Michelle Jester, America's Health Insurance Plans; Michael McNear, Lived experience advisor; Melanie Molina, University of California San Francisco; Deepak Palakshappa, Wake Forest University; Liana Petruzzi, University of Texas at Austin
Meeting Content
Access recordings and slides from National Research Meeting plenaries, workshops, and podium presentations by using the sidebar menu or scrolling below.
Click here to access an archived copy of the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting agenda.
Workshops
Workshop | Building and strengthening community-academic partnerships to address food insecurity
Workshop | What should we teach physician trainees about social care? Core competencies, priorities and exemplars
Workshop | Take the next step on deepening lived experience expertise in social care research
Social Care Implementation Research and Quality Improvement Studies I
Social care best practices: Learnings from a technology-enabled closed-loop referral network
Meaningful impacts of a Community Information Exchange (CIE) model
Achieving and maintaining successful food insecurity screening implementation through continuous quality improvement practices
Adoption and impact of clinical decision support tools targeting social risk-informed healthcare provision: Trial results
Social Care Effectiveness Research
Association between hospital-based food pantry use and subsequent emergency department utilization among Medicaid patients with diabetes
Lessons learned implementing and evaluating a Boston hospital system’s cross-sector housing intervention to prevent eviction
We care about Brooklyn: A social care intervention designed to optimize engagement in maternal healthcare
A social care assistance intervention for dementia caregivers reduces emergency care utilization
Patient Perspectives on Social Screening
SDOH screening can be unknowingly stigmatizing: Patient perspectives on addressing social needs in clinical settings
Unpacking patient perspectives on social needs screening: A mixed methods study in primary care practices
The role of threat vigilance in screening and addressing unmet social care in the ED
Impact of racism on patients' experiences of social care—Implications for healthcare based social care interventions
Evaluating Success in Closed-Loop Coordinated Social Care Networks Supported by The Heinz Endowments
Creating and evaluating service navigation networks for the military-connected population
Separating the dimensions of network performance for coordinated care networks
Beyond service volume: Validating the trajectories of care metric for long-term veteran referral success
Participation of Veterans Affairs medical centers in coordinated care networks to address veterans’ social needs
Social Care Implementation Research and Quality Improvement Studies II
Embedding social care in community college settings through a mental health navigator program
The importance of role and setting in health system social determinants of health screening results
Implementing social risk screening and referral protocols in a healthcare system: Attitudes, barriers, and successes
Integrating produce prescriptions into healthcare: Lessons learned from vouchers 4 veggies
State and Federal Social Care Policy and Program Evaluations
For better health, start with safety: Addressing and preventing intimate partner violence through Medicaid policy
At the crossroads: Initial findings and lessons learned from a Medicaid housing benefit pilot
Multilevel evaluation of the Massachusetts Medicaid Flexible Services program to address food and housing insecurity
Social Risk Screening and Documentation
Food insecurity prevalence and perspectives among healthcare clinicians and staff in rural western Colorado
Trends in the use of SDOH ICD10 across time, geography, market and service type
Development and validation of a performance-based assessment for communication about social needs with patients
