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The Latest from The Milbank Memorial Fund

  1. Innovations in Rural Obstetrics to Maintain Access to Care 

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  2. Supporting Federally Qualified Health Center Participation in Value-Based Payment to Improve Quality and Achieve Savings

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  3. The Power of Partnership: Utah’s Approach to Affordable, Accessible, High-Quality Health Care 

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  4. Charting a New History: A Moderate Republican Calls for Change

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  5. Confronting the Bully: New North Carolina Medicaid Program Gets Hospitals to Forgive and Prevent Medical Debt 

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  6. Ann Gillespie: Succeeding in Both Branches of Government

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Latest Milbank Quarterly Issue Released:  June 2024

  1. 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

  2. Early View Original Scholarship

    A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Implementation of Policies That Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health

    By:  Nicole A. Stadnick Carrie Geremia Megan Wynecoop Amanda I Mauri Kera Swanson Jonathan Purtle

    More than 200 states and local jurisdictions use earmarked taxes — revenue from sales, income, or property taxes — to fund behavioral health services. More

  3. Early View Perspective

    Reforming Physician Licensure in the United States to Improve Access to Telehealth: State, Regional, and Federal Initiatives

    By:  James René Jolin Barak Richman Ateev Mehrotra Carmel Shachar

    The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in the use of telehealth in the United States,1 aided in no small part by a flurry of temporary… More

  4. Early View Perspective

    Targeting Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Health Care to Reduce Bias and Improve Population Health

    By:  Thelma C. Hurd Fay Cobb Payton Darryl B. Hood

    Artificial intelligence is being embraced as the solution to mitigate differences in health and health outcomes. More

  5. Early View Perspective

    Policy Recommendations for Coordinated and Sustainable Growth of the Behavioral Health Workforce

    By:  Briana S. Last Erika L. Crable

    Demand for behavioral health services in the United States far outpaced supply before the coronavirus pandemic, but the past several years have… More

  6. Early View Original Scholarship

    State-Level Education Quality and Trajectories of Cognitive Function by Race and Educational Attainment

    By:  Katrina M. Walsemann Heide Jackson Emily Abbruzzi Jennifer A. Ailshire

    Federal and state investment in public schools may provide students with opportunities to develop important cognitive resources during schooling that translate into better cognitive function in later life, especially among marginalized populations. More

The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

The Public Health Community Must Stand Up for Greater Resources Devoted to Criminal Justice Research

Working in the fields of substance use and harm reduction, we encounter the suffering and trauma experienced by study participants, community…  More

Civil Rights, Health Care, and the Struggle for the Soul of Medicine

New federal court decisions have delayed the implementation of new rules protecting health care for transgender people issued under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.  More

Health Equity Research in Population Health: Building the Necessary Workforce

Civil rights and health equity advocates in the allied fields of population health have worked for decades to get more funding and attention for…  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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