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State Health Policy Leadership

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  • The Smallest Losers 

    Blog Post

    The Smallest Losers 

    September 2023 Morgan McDonald

    Representation can make the difference between life or death. Just as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” was foundational to the… More

  • News Article

    How Policymakers’ Personal Stories Inspire Their State Service: A Conversation with Wyoming State Senator Fred Baldwin

    August 2023

    In this Q&A, Milbank Memorial Fund National Director of Population Health and Health Equity Morgan McDonald, MD, talks with Fred Baldwin, a… More

  • News Article

    How Policymakers’ Personal Stories Inspire Their State Service: A Conversation with Fatmata Williams

    August 2023

    In a conversation with Milbank Memorial Fund president Christopher Koller, Fatmata Williams, director of medical administration at the Connecticut… More

  • News Article

    Policing and Population Health

    August 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg

    Research suggests that policing operates as a social determinant of population health and contributes to racial and ethnic health disparities. In… More

  • Supporting Black Maternal Health Clinicians as an Avenue to Improving Maternal Outcomes 

    Blog Post

    Supporting Black Maternal Health Clinicians as an Avenue to Improving Maternal Outcomes 

    August 2023 Faith Mitchell Kimá Joy Taylor

    Maternal mortality in the United States is more than three times the rate in most other high-income countries–and it is worsening. The rate more… More

  • Blog Post

    Costenheimer 

    August 2023 Christopher F. Koller

    This summer could well be remembered for two things — record heat and “Barbenheimer.” The first phenomenon may be a harbinger of what’s to… More

  • News Article

    Tennessee Task Force Report Offers Policy to Improve Rural Health Care

    July 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg

    In June, the Tennessee Rural Health Care Task Force formed by Governor Bill Lee and co-chaired by Milbank Memorial Fund National Director of Population Health, Morgan McDonald, MD, and Lifepoint CEO David Dill released a report with 13 evidence-based policy recommendations to improve access to care, recruit and sustain the health care workforce, and address social drivers of health for the state’s rural residents. More

  • News Article

    Understanding Racism and Health

    July 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg

    In this Q&A, Jamila Michener, PhD, of Cornell University and Tiffany Ford, MPH, PhD, of the University of Illinois at Chicago discuss their contribution to The Milbank Quarterly’s centennial issue. More

  • News Article

    The Next Generation of Payment Reforms for Population Health

    June 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg

    In this Q&A, Kushal T. Kadakia of the Harvard Medical School discusses his contribution to the issue, “The Next Generation of Payment Reforms for Population Health – An Actionable Agenda for 2035 Informed by Past Gains and Ongoing Lessons,” co-authored by Anaeze C. Offodile II of the Rice University Baker Institute for Public Policy. More

  • Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

    News Article

    Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation

    June 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg

    In this Q&A, Roshanak Mehdipanah of the University of Michigan School of Public Health discusses her contribution to the issue, “Without Affordable, Accessible, and Adequate Housing, Health Has No Foundation.” She describes housing through the lenses of affordability, access, and adequacy, and argues that housing is a human right and determinant of health. More