> ![](media/image1.jpeg){width="1.625in" height="0.75in"}***Improving
> people's lives through creative health***
>
> ***and human service solutions***

![](media/image2.png){width="6.625in" height="2.25in"}***Health Systems
Research, Inc. (HSR)*** is a public policy research and consulting firm
that provides program and technical support to clients at the national,
state, and local levels. Since the firm was founded in 1980, our work
has centered around our vision of improving people\'s lives through
creative health and human service solutions.

HSR works collaboratively with our public and private sector clients to
develop and implement innovative, effective, and culturally appropriate
strategies that improve the health and social well-being of individuals,
families, and communities. To achieve this goal, we provide our clients
with a creative combination of real world experience, skillful
consultation, analytic expertise, and state-of-the-art technologies.

HSR\'s staff includes researchers, policy analysts, evaluators,
facilitators, trainers, economists, and former senior state officials
with extensive substantive and programmatic knowledge. HSR has a long
and successful track record of providing a broad range of services that
are critically important to public and private policymakers, agency
directors, service managers, and other leaders in the health care field.
These include:

-   Policy Research and Analysis

-   Program Design and Evaluation

-   Technical Assistance and Training

-   Knowledge Transfer Strategies

-   Conference Planning and Meeting Facilitation

These services are applied in specific areas in which HSR has
significant expertise. We specialize in:

-   Behavioral Health Promotion, Treatment, and Recovery

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-   Bioterrorism and Health System Preparedness

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-   Children with Special Health Care Needs

-   Food Assistance and Nutrition Education Programs and Activities

-   Health and Human Services Systems Development

-   Intercultural Health Issues

-   Maternal, Child, and Community Health

-   Medicaid, SCHIP, and Other Health Care Access-Oriented Programs

***Samples of just a few of our recent projects include:***

-   **Homelessness.** The design, conduct and provision of technical
    assistance for a series of Policy Academies designed to help states
    collaboratively develop and implement effective strategies to
    improve homeless individuals' and families' access to mainstream
    health and social support services. This major initiative is jointly
    sponsored by the Federal Departments of Health and Human Services,
    Housing and Urban Development, Veterans Affairs, and Labor.

-   **Osteoporosis.** The provision of management, substantive, and
    administrative support for the development of a new Surgeon
    General's report on osteoporosis and bone health. As part of this
    project, HSR also conducted an evaluation of efforts to disseminate
    past Surgeon General reports and other related reports and developed
    a series of recommendations for increasing the impact of the
    forthcoming bone health report and future Surgeon General reports.

-   **Support of Families of Incarcerated Individuals.** An examination
    of the research gaps and the development of a research agenda around
    strategies to effectively address the health and social support
    needs of the families of incarcerated individuals.

-   The provision of technical assistance to state grantees under a new
    Federal initiative to help develop integrated systems of care
    focused on early childhood development.

-   **Cross-Training.** The provision of training and technical
    assistance to promote cross-system collaboration among infectious
    disease, alcohol and drug, mental health, criminal justice, and
    homeless services professionals to appropriately and effectively
    serve diverse clients with complex needs.

-   **Oral Health.** The provision of technical assistance, training,
    and other knowledge transfer activities to states, communities, and
    providers across the country focused on improving the oral health of
    America's children.

***For more information, please contact:***

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# William Sowers, M.P.A.

Director of Corporate Development

Health Systems Research, Inc.

1200 18^th^ Street, NW, Suite 700

Washington, DC 20036

Phone: 202-828-5100

Fax: 202-728-9469

Email: wsowers@hsrnet.com

***Or visit our website at:*** www.hsrnet.com

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