The Fund supports networks of state health policy decision makers to help identify, inspire, and inform policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund supports two state leadership programs for legislative and executive branch state government officials committed to improving population health.
The Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis to advance state health leadership, strong primary care, and sustainable health care costs.
Keep up with news and updates from the Milbank Memorial Fund. And read the latest blogs from our thought leaders, including Fund President Christopher F. Koller.
The Fund publishes The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to health policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is is a foundation that works to improve population health and health equity.
Improving population health and health equity by connecting leaders with experience and sound evidence
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Current Issue Early View Opinions
From the Editor
By: Alan B. Cohen,
After celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Milbank Quarterly in 2023, we begin the process of plotting the journal’s next century with an… More
Early View Perspective
By: Tracy Lam-Hine, Sarah Forthal, Candice Y. Johnson, Helen B. Chin,
Racial inequities in health and well-being began in the United States with colonization and slavery and have persisted as direct consequences of… More
By: Jonathan C. Heller, Marjory L. Givens, Sheri P. Johnson, David A. Kindig,
When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More
By: Paul Kershaw, Verena Rossa-Roccor,
Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More
By: James René Jolin, Minsoo Kwon, Elizabeth Brock, Jonathan Chen, Aisha Kokan, Ryan Murdock, Fatima Cody Stanford,
Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the United States. Current… More
By: Laura M. Gottlieb, Danielle Hessler, Holly Wing, Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha, Yuri Cartier, Caroline Fichtenberg,
Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More
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The Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs advances state-based efforts to make health care more affordable for residents, employers, and states.
The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan, voluntary, self-governing group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches.
The Emerging Leaders Program seeks to develop practical, hands-on leadership skills in future senior executive and legislative officials.
The Milbank Fellows Program (MFP) is a one-year leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health in their communities.
Keep up with news and updates from the Milbank Memorial Fund.
Short takes from Milbank Memorial Fund staff and guest authors on research and policies that affect population health.
Milbank Memorial Fund President Christopher Koller and other staff offer their perspectives on both the latest and perennial issues in population health.
