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Population Health Public Health
October 2025 Joshua M. Sharfstein,
If repetition is the mother of learning, then I am learning that the second Trump administration likes to use the term “gold standard science.” It is… More
Health Care Practice / Quality Population Health
October 2025 Katherine A. Kennedy, Cyrus Kosar, Madison S. Williams, Kali S. Thomas,
Context: Funded partially by the Older Americans Act, state Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs (LTCOPs) provide a critical role in serving as… More
Health Care Practice / Quality Opioid Use Disorder
October 2025 STEPHAN R. LINDNER, JENNIFER HALL, BRYNNA MANIBUSAN, JORDAN BYERS, KYLE HART, ANDREA BARON, Dennis McCarty, K. John McConnell, Deborah J. Cohen,
Starting in 2015, states could apply for section 1115 substance use disorder (SUD) waivers to strengthen their continuum of care for treatment of opioid use disorder (OUD). Prior research found substantial variation in changes to medication use for OUD associated with waiver implementation. The objective of this study was to identify strategies that states undertook as part of their waivers that were associated with increases in methadone and buprenorphine treatment in eight waiver states (Indiana, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia). More
Health Equity Reproductive Health
October 2025 Paula M. Lantz,
Despite the dynamic and multidimensional nature of the legal landscape for abortion, the negative effects of restrictive state abortion policies are beginning to emerge. More
October 2025 Lawrence O. Gostin,
Throughout my career, I have chaired and been a member of countless scientific and health policy advisory committees for the federal… More
Public Health
October 2025 Dalton Conley,
Almost 28 years ago, I became a young, new father. Too young by a couple months, actually, since my daughter was born prematurely. During her… More
Health Equity Opioid Use Disorder Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Policy
October 2025 Spruha Joshi, Victoria A. Jent, Sneha M. Sunder, Katherine Wheeler-Martin, Magdalena Cerdá,
See all articles in the special issue, Mental Health and Substance Use Challenges Facing the United States: What Can State Policymakers… More
October 2025 Magdalena Cerdá, Beth McGinty, Alan B. Cohen,
After publishing a special issue in 2023 celebrating the Quarterly’s Centennial Anniversary that was devoted to the broad theme of the future of population health, our editorial team decided to focus the next special issue on a theme of great importance to state health policymakers. More
Population Health
October 2025 David Rosner,
The Senate Finance Committee hearings with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) were explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of… More
Child Health Public Health
September 2025 Louisiana M. Sanchez, Junhan Cho, Alyssa F. Harlow, Richard A. Miech, Steven Sussman, Hongying D. Dai, Abigail Adjei, Dae-Hee Han, Ming Li, Leah Meza, Adam M. Leventhal, Dayoung Bae,
The specific nontobacco e-cigarette flavors used by US youth who exclusively vape e-cigarettes compared with youth who engage in poly-tobacco or poly-substance use can help identify the populations most likely to be impacted by e-cigarette flavor policies. More
