Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network
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Welcome to the official podcast channel of the Social Interventions Research and Evaluation Network (SIREN) at the University of California, San Francisco.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Serious panel conversations connect healthcare ethics, social care policy, and research methods without pretending the evidence is cleaner than it is.
The SIREN Podcast turns questions about health and social care into rigorous public conversations, often through recordings of webinars and conference panels.
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A careful look at what the Camden Coalition trial can and cannot tell us about readmissions.
The episode takes a close look at what the Camden Coalition randomized trial can and cannot say, then shifts toward lived experience, trust, and what meaningful care looks like from the consumer scholars' point of view.
A measured policy discussion that makes a large social-care evaluation feel concrete and consequential.
The SIREN Podcast turns a policy webinar into a clear, useful discussion of the third Accountable Health Communities Evaluation Report, which came out in November 2024.
A measured look at how confidentiality, education, and community partnerships shape IPV response.
The episode treats intimate partner violence as something health systems have to work around, not just screen for. It stays grounded in what that means in practice: how IPV connects to other social drivers of health, how evidence-based and healing-centered response can work…
A careful abolition discussion that links child welfare and health care to the harms protective systems can reproduce.
This episode treats abolition as more than a criminal justice argument, and that wider frame gives it real force. It connects child welfare, mandated reporting, and health care without flattening the differences between them, while keeping race and institutional power at the…
A careful look at what randomized evidence can and cannot tell care-management programs.
The SIREN webinar keeps its focus on method, using the Camden Coalition care management randomized trial to ask what a health-system intervention can really show.
A wide-ranging SIREN discussion of social care funding, implementation, and what COVID-19 exposed.
This SIREN plenary stays close to the practical side of social care: research, social return on investment, budget silos, and the wrong pocket problem that leaves one sector paying for another sector's savings.
A careful case for why health systems may need to act on social care when the usual alternatives are missing.
This plenary treats health-related social needs as a policy problem, not a slogan. It follows the early enthusiasm around the issue and then asks a harder question: what should health care organizations do when the usual alternatives are absent, yet they still have resources,…
A careful debate about where healthcare should help, and where it should step back.
SIREN's webinar keeps a useful question in view: where the healthcare sector's job ends, and where social services have to take over, especially as CMS, NCQA, the Joint Commission, and state Medicaid efforts all press on the same problem.
Peter Attia evaluates longevity science, from CETP inhibitors to protein debates, through evidence.
Morning medical evidence, compressed for practice.
Medical research, translated through patient experience.
The SIREN Podcast presents a plenary session from the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting, Advancing the Science of Social Care.
Laura Gottlieb, Danielle Hessler-Jones, and Caroline Fichtenberg present SIREN's evolving conceptual model for social care in healthcare delivery settings, based on a paper developed since 2016 and published in Milbank Quarterly in January.
SIREN presents part two of a two-part webinar series on intimate partner violence, focused on sustainable and equitable approaches to documentation, coding, and intervention without putting safety and well-being at risk.
This is a plenary recording from SIREN 2025.
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This recorded Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics event brings together a panel of University of Chicago experts to talk through the organizational dilemmas that come with bringing medical and social care together.
The SIREN Podcast presents the second part of a two-part webinar on the implications of the Camden Coalition's randomized controlled trial results.
This episode explores how abolitionist frameworks can transform healthcare and education, featuring scholars Dr.
This panel discussion explores the healthcare sector's role in addressing social determinants of health, debating whether hospitals should fund social services like housing.
SIREN gathers researchers and policy voices to ask where healthcare should put its money on food security interventions.
The SIREN podcast turns to the ethics of healthcare's role in social care.
Caroline Bichtenberg opens the webinar by situating SIREN and the Accountable Health Communities Model Evaluation.
SIREN opens part one of a two-part webinar on intimate partner violence.
SIREN opens a recorded Hot Topics discussion on what the Camden Coalition's care management randomized trial can actually teach.
This webinar explains what state Medicaid community reinvestment requirements are and why states are using them.