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The Latest from The Milbank Memorial Fund

  1. Milbank Quarterly Webinar: Trends in the Financing and Ownership of US Health Care

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  2. New Medicaid Proposed Rules Focus on Primary Care

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  3. Training the Primary Care Workforce to Deliver Team-Based Care in Underserved Areas: The Teaching Health Center Program

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  4. The Role of Data Equity in Achieving Health Equity

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  5. Making Health Care More Affordable: A Playbook for Legislators

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  6. Understanding the Population Health Workforce

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Latest Milbank Quarterly Issue Released:  The Future of Population Health

  1. Centennial Issue

    The Next Generation of Payment Reforms for Population Health – An Actionable Agenda for 2035 Informed by Past Gains and Ongoing Lessons

    By:  Kushal T. Kadakia Anaeze C. Offodile

    US health care reform over the past decade has placed substantial focus on rewiring health care financing, specifically increasing provider accountability for utilization (i.e., cost) and/or outcomes. More

  2. Centennial Issue

    A Population Health Impact Pyramid for Health Care

    By:  Philip M. Alberti Heather H. Pierce

    To meaningfully impact population health and health equity, health care organizations must take a multipronged approach that ranges from education to advocacy, recognizing that more impactful efforts are often more complex or resource intensive. More

  3. Centennial Issue

    The Global Health Architecture: Governance and International Institutions to Advance Population Health Worldwide

    By:  Lawrence O. Gostin Eric A. Friedman Alexandra Finch

    The United Nations (UN) created the World Health Organization (WHO) as its first specialized agency out of the ruins and atrocities of World War II.… More

  4. Centennial Issue

    Challenges, Successes, and the Future of Firearm Injury Prevention

    By:  Jessica S. Roche Patrick M. Carter April M. Zeoli Rebecca M. Cunningham Marc A. Zimmerman

    Firearm injuries constitute a major US public health crisis that requires urgent attention. Fatality rates have increased 34.9% over the past decade… More

  5. Centennial Issue

    The Future of Public Mental Health: Challenges and Opportunities

    By:  Beth McGinty

    This article summarizes past gains and successes in US mental health, outlines failures and continuing problems, and discusses solutions, with an eye toward the role of social policy. More

  6. Centennial Issue

    Improving Older Adults’ Health by Reducing Administrative Burden

    By:  Pamela Herd

    In principle, older adults have access to a wealth of health-promoting upstream, midstream, and downstream policy supports, which improve economic security, increase access to a wide array of long-term care services, and ensure access to basic medical care. Although considerable attention has been focused on threats to the old-age welfare state, ranging from long-term financing problems to attempts to roll back benefits, administrative barriers to these programs already threaten their effectiveness. More

The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Building a Movement at the 2023 US Anti-Monopoly Summit

Has anti-monopoly become a bonafide political movement in the United States? About 300 persons who gathered at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, on May 4th say yes. Representing diverse organizations and backgrounds, they assembled for a daylong exploration of progress in restoring an aggressive national effort to thwart corporate monopoly across the US economy. This initiative, coming after 40-plus years of comatose federal anti-trust action, could still derail. And perhaps not. It has energy, dynamism, and smarts. While this phenomenon is about the whole economy, make no mistake—it’s also about health care. Here I offer a brief update.  More
John E. McDonough

John E. McDonough

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The Off-Ramp from COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Orders: Are We on a Road Forward or a U-Turn?

The sunsetting of emergency declarations and orders, while signaling a decrease in the turmoil caused by COVID-19, does not mean the pandemic is over in the United States or globally.  More
Paula M. Lantz

Paula M. Lantz

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Reimagining Prevention in a Post-COVID-19 World

At some level, we failed at prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. If our metric for success was preventing viral spread, illness, or death, then a pandemic in which the United States was hit harder than any other large country showed us that we fell substantially shorter in prevention than we might have hoped. With this as a motivating impulse, I suggest that we ask two questions: what caused the consequences of COVID-19 to be so devastating in the US? And, understanding that, what would be an intellectual and practical agenda for prevention going forward?  More
Sandro Galea

Sandro Galea

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State Networks and Leadership Programs

  • Milbank State Leadership Network

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

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  • Multipayer Primary Care Network

    The Multipayer Primary Care Network is a voluntary group of leaders who are representatives of state- or region-based, multipayer, primary care transformation initiatives.

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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 (MFP) is a one-year leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health in their communities.

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