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Improving population health and health equity by connecting leaders with experience and sound evidence

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The Latest from The Milbank Memorial Fund

  1. Fear, Trust, and Hope 

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  2. Trust Me: Building Relationships to Weather Our Political Climate  

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  3. Partnering with the Gun Lobby to Enact Suicide Prevention Laws in Utah 

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  4. How Health Insurers Can Partner with Grocery Stores to Improve SNAP and WIC Enrollment  

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  5. Equitable Implementation of Public Health Laws Helps Ensure that Everyone Benefits

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  6. The Commonwealth Fund 2024 Women’s Health and Reproductive Care Scorecard: Milbank State Leadership Network Post-Briefing Fact Sheet

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Latest Milbank Quarterly Issue Released:  September 2024

  1. Early View Original Scholarship

    When the Bough Breaks: The Financial Burden of Childbirth and Postpartum Care by Insurance Type

    By:  Heidi L. Allen Mandi Spishak-Thomas Kristen Underhill Chen Liu Jamie R. Daw

    The cost of childbirth and postpartum health care results in significant and persistent financial hardship, particularly for families with lower income with commercial insurance. More

  2. Early View Original Scholarship

    Launching Financial Incentives for Physician Groups to Improve Equity of Care by Patient Race and Ethnicity

    By:  Hector P. Rodriguez SARAH D. EPSTEIN Amanda L. Brewster TIMOTHY T. BROWN STACY CHEN Salma Bibi

    Context: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA), a large commercial health insurer, is using financial incentives to advance equity of care… More

  3. Early View Original Scholarship

    Population Health Implications of Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Populations

    By:  ELIZABETH T. CHIN YIRAN E. LIU C. BRANDON OGBUNU Sanjay Basu

    Context: As states expand prerelease and transition services for incarcerated individuals under the Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration… More

  4. Early View Perspective

    Overcoming the Impact of Students for Fair Admission v Harvard to Build a More Representative Health Care Workforce: Perspectives from Ending Unequal Treatment

    By:  Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Marco Thimm-Kaiser Adam Benzekri Ruth S. Shim Francis K. Amankwah Sara Rosenbaum

    The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) has had a major… More

  5. From the Editor

    In the September 2024 Issue of the Quarterly

    By:  Alan B. Cohen

    This issue of the Quarterly features several articles related to state health policy for behavioral and mental health, including policy… More

  6. Early View Original Scholarship

    A Comparative Analysis of International Drug Price Negotiation Frameworks: An Interview Study of Key Stakeholders

    By:  Iselin Dahlen Syversen Kevin Schulman Aaron S. Kesselheim William B. Feldman

    The Medicare drug negotiation framework established under the Inflation Reduction Act is far more limited than other frameworks in seven health systems explored in this study. More

The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Engaging the Courts: The Defense of Public Health Agencies from Judicial Interference

In a series of decisions, the US Supreme Court has severely constrained the authority of federal agencies to regulate in the interest of public…  More

National Surveillance Data on Postpartum Health Is Urgently Needed and Feasible to Collect

Rates of maternal mortality in the United States increased sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic, with evidence of widening racial disparities.1…  More

Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Agency Rulemaking as an Overlooked Source of Health Disparities

Health disparities—the differences in access to health care and related services as well as in health utilization and outcomes—are influenced by…  More

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State Networks and Leadership Programs

  • Milbank State Leadership Network

    The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches.

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  • Emerging Leaders Program

    The Emerging Leaders Program seeks to develop practical, hands-on leadership skills in future senior executive and legislative officials.

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  • Milbank Fellows Program

    The Milbank Fellows Program is a leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health.

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