The Milbank Memorial Fund is an endowed operating foundation that publishes The Milbank Quarterly, commissions projects, and convenes state health policy decision makers on issues they identify as important to population health.
We focus on a number of topic areas identified by state health policy leaders as important to population health.
The Center for Evidence-based Policy at Oregon Health & Science University is a national leader in evidence-based decision making and policy design.
Keep up with news and updates from the Milbank Memorial Fund. Get the latest from thought leaders, including Christopher F. Koller, president of the Fund.
We publish The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to population health.
An endowed operating foundation that works to improve the health of populations by connecting leaders and decision makers with the best available evidence and experience
Jan 17, 2019
A certificate of public advantage (COPA) is a tool used by states to permit and oversee hospital mergers that create monopoly powers. A few months ago, we published a paper about the use of a COPA in Tennessee and Virginia. But what happens when a COPA is repealed? In a new issue brief, Erin Fuse Brown, of Georgia State University College of Law, takes a look at the COPA law in North Carolina … Read more
Dec 17, 2018 | Christopher F. Koller, President
Sigmund Freud said, “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” That insight—that productive labor and positive human relationships improve one’s physical and mental health—is part of the increased interest in health care’s role in addressing the social determinants of health. The absence of these factors—such as economic stability, safe neighborhoods, access to education … Read more
The Fund is hiring a new communications director. The director, a critical part of the Fund’s team, oversees all aspects of the Fund’s communications efforts. He/she will develop and execute the Fund’s communications plan, ensuring that all communications are consistent with the Fund’s strategic direction, are of the highest editorial and design quality, and reach the Fund’s target audiences. Learn more
A multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy
From the Editor
November 2018 | Alan B. Cohen
In an Early View Editor’s Letter, Alan B. Cohen, new editor of The Milbank Quarterly shares insight into the journal’s future editorial direction. Throughout its 95-year history, the Quarterly has been and continues to be regarded as one of the premier journals in its field, known for having published numerous seminal articles that remain classics in the literature today. Read more
Original Scholarship
November 2018 | Gayathri Embuldeniya, Maritt Kirst, Kevin Walker, Walter P. Wodchis
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Issue Brief
To Oversee or Not to Oversee? Lessons from the Repeal of North Carolina’s Certificate of Public Advantage Law
January 17, 2019
Report
Hospital Mergers and Public Accountability: Tennessee and Virginia Employ a Certificate of Public Advantage
September 26, 2018
Case Studies
Population Health: The Translation of Research to Policy
September 17, 2018
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