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  • Commercial Determinants of Health Population Health

    From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Engineering Fuels the Epidemic of Preventable Disease

    February 2026 Ashley N. Gearhardt Kelly D. Brownell Allan M. Brandt

    Context: Ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) now dominate the global food supply and are strongly associated with risks for heart disease, cancers, metabolic… More

  • New Study: Ultra-Processed Food Manufacturers Are Applying Tobacco Industry Methods to Drive Overconsumption

    February 2026

    Regulators should look to tobacco control for policies to manage ultra-processed food’s impact on health February 3, 2026—As the federal… More

  • Health IT Rural Health

    A National Neural Network: AI-Broadband Symbiosis as Health Infrastructure

    January 2026 Pedram Fard Hossein Estiri

    The December 2025 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence has generated familiar responses from familiar quarters. Legal scholars debate federal… More

  • Health Equity Population Health

    The Trump Administration Comes for Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act

    January 2026 Sara Rosenbaum

    The implications of the Department of Justice’s action to eliminate the “disparate impact” test, which provides the legal foundation for removing discriminatory barriers in public health and health care. More

  • Rural Health

    Multidimensional Approaches to Ranking State-Level Rurality to Enhance Comparisons Across States

    January 2026 Daniel Baslock Nari Yoo

    Context: Inadequate descriptions of rurality limit comparisons across rural areas and can lead to overgeneralizations in health policy research.… More

  • Health Insurance Population Health

    Health Care Affordability is Worth Fighting For

    December 2025 Heidi L. Allen Scarlett Wang

    Political analysts have argued that inflation and concerns about the economy were driving factors in the 2024 presidential election. As costs for… More

  • Mental Health Social drivers of health

    The 2021 Child Tax Credit and Children’s Health and Well-Being: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Study

    December 2025 Guangyi Wang Daniel F. Collin Deborah Karasek Rita Hamad

    https://youtu.be/SYuXw_GfDUU Context: In July 2021, to alleviate material hardship, Congress temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC),… More

  • Population Health Public Health

    Pseudoscience, Subterfuge, and Civil Resistance

    December 2025 Alan B. Cohen

    With each passing day, the United States federal government introduces yet another policy that threatens, rather than promotes, the health and… More

  • Mental Health Population Health

    Health Effects of the 2021 Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion on Young Adults Without Children

    December 2025 Abdinasir K. Ali Emily C. Dore Rita Hamad

    In 2021, Congress expanded the earned income tax credit (EITC)—the largest US poverty alleviation program—to young adults without children who had previously been ineligible. More

  • Population Health Social drivers of health

    Medicaid’s Essential Investments to Address Health-Related Social Needs

    November 2025 Harold A. Pollack

    nsider the story of John Miller, a fictionalized Chicagoan, who lives with a serious mental illness and co-occurring addiction disorders. He recently left a psychiatric inpatient facility. Estranged from his family, Mr. Miller was on the verge of becoming street homeless. More