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Health Equity State Health Policy
March 2026 Margaret H. Swenson, Lauren D. Boczkowski, Brad Riley, K. Noelle Broughton, Christopher J. Koliba,
Racial disparities—unequal outcomes between racial groups—persist in the United States, particularly with respect to health and economic outcomes. There has been increased focus on the ways in which upstream determinants of health contribute to these disparities; however, little is known about how forced inaction on these upstream determinants affects health and economic outcomes. More
Global Health Population Health
March 2026 Ilias Kyriopoulos, Dimitrios Minos, Sotiris Vandoros, Elias Mossialos,
While public health research has examined the macro-level and structural determinants of health, the link between corruption and population health remains underexplored. More
Social drivers of health
February 2026 Anthony Iton, PRITPAL S. TAMBER, Gina Massuda Barnett, Rachel Rubin, Adam Kader, Christina R. Welter, Elizabeth Fisher, Jennifer Ybarra, Pamela Agustin-Anguiano, Greg Bonett, Jeanne Ayers, Meredith Minkler,
Disparities in health often arise due to unfair or unjust social arrangements making them inequities. More
Health Insurance
February 2026 Maryssa Pallis, Jane L. Tavares, Reena Sethi, Kerry Glova, Marc A. Cohen,
About 280,000 older adults experience the “Medicare Cliff” each year, becoming eligible for Medicare and losing Medicaid coverage when they turn age 65 years due to discontinuities in financial eligibility criteria. More
Health Equity Population Health
February 2026 Harold A. Pollack,
I recently attended a National Institutes of Health (NIH) meeting concerned with criminal justice interventions. Speakers emphasized the importance of involving people with lived experience—which everyone understood to mean persons who have experienced arrest and incarceration. More
Population Health Public Health
February 2026 Dave A. Chokshi, Judy Monroe,
America’s public health system is being eroded. Proposed federal cuts would slash core programs by half, even as communities face rising infectious disease outbreaks, worsening chronic disease, and shrinking access to basic prevention. More
Global Health Health Equity Public Health
February 2026 Mark L. Rosenberg, Lawrence O. Gostin,
In our bitterly partisan age, where science and public health are distrusted, even denigrated, there is a better part of America. More
Aging Social drivers of health State Health Policy
February 2026 Madonna Harrington Meyer, Colleen M. Heflin,
The number of older Americans who are food insecure is growing, yet a recent Trump administration decision to terminate data collection of the annual… More
February 2026 T. Joseph Mattingly II, Madeline O'Neal,
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, enacted on July 4, 2025, established the first nationwide Medicaid work requirement, replacing prior state-specific Section 1115 demonstrations with a uniform federal standard More
Health Equity Social drivers of health
February 2026 Julianna Pacheco, Nicole Novak, Samantha Deragon, Stephanie Schmitt,
We broaden our understanding of community power by going beyond traditional measures of voting and voting rights. Our objectives are to (1) create county-level measures of community power that are more expansive than voting and (2) explore the descriptive and geographic patterns of community power. More
