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Reproductive Health State Health Policy
June 2026 Alina Salganicoff, Ivette Gomez, Usha Ranji,
Access to sexual and reproductive health care varies widely by geography, and state-level policies play a major role in establishing the contours that govern the coverage, provision, availability, and costs of services. More
Rural Health
June 2026 Michael Shepherd,
Rural and urban areas have diverged significantly in health care access and health outcomes over the last four decades. More
Population Health State Health Policy
June 2026 Amy Belflower Thomas, Reena Chudgar, Whitney Magendie, Megan McClaire, Joneigh S. Khaldun,
The US public health system is facing an inflection point characterized by chronic underinvestment, workforce and service delivery challenges, outdated data infrastructure, growing health inequities, and increasing instability within the broader health care safety net including projected Medicaid coverage changes and continued rural hospital closures. More
Academic-Community Partnerships Health Equity
June 2026 Yusra Murad, Kristina Medero, Chloe Gansen, Jasmine Sandate, Marissa Hallo, Sarah E. Gollust,
Building narrative power, a foundational strategy used in community organizing, involves dismantling dominant narratives that uphold inequity and constructing counternarratives that advance health equity and racial justice by reshaping how people make sense of the world. More
June 2026 Mary Louise Gilburg,
Nick Macchione serves as chief health officer and chief executive at East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health. In these dual roles, Macchione works with senior leaders to enhance UC San Diego Health’s organizational structure, streamline operations and expand strategic partnerships to ensure the broader community has access to our world-class care and leading-edge therapies. More
Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as chief executive officer at the FrameWorks Institute. Nat oversees the organization’s pioneering, research-based approach to strategic communications, which uses methods from the social and behavioral sciences to measure how people understand complex socio-political issues and tests ways to reframe them to drive social change. More
June 2026 Alan B. Cohen, Tara Strome,
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of David Rosner, an esteemed member of The Milbank Quarterly’s Editorial Advisory Board and a long-time contributor and friend of the Milbank Memorial Fund. More
Social drivers of health State Health Policy
June 2026 Andrew Fenelon,
Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. More
Commercial Determinants of Health
June 2026 John E. McDonough,
I’ve been examining how public policies have facilitated the transformation of America’s health and medical care systems into today’s financialized and commercialized realities. More
When Georgetown University’s Larry Gostin arrived in Geneva for the World Health Assembly in late May, the World Health Organization (WHO) was… More
