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.
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We publish The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to population health.
Mar 6, 2014
Recent disease outbreaks in the last decade such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARs-CoV) in Asia and the pandemic H1N1/09 influenza virus worldwide have prompted infectious disease scientists to investigate new ways to improve public health surveillance, monitoring the incidence of infectious diseases to understand and minimize their impact. The exchange of health … Read more
Jan 14, 2014
A new analysis released today by the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative with support from the Milbank Memorial Fund reports on an expanding body of research that shows that the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model is having a significant impact on reducing costs of care and unnecessary emergency department (ED) and hospital visits, as well as increasing the provision of preventive … Read more
Nov 14, 2013
The Milbank Memorial Fund has announced additions to its Board of Directors and management team. At its October 15, 2013 meeting, the Board of Directors of the Milbank Memorial Fund elected Paul D. Cleary and John M. Colmers to serve as new directors of the organization. Dr. Cleary is dean of the Yale School of Public Health and the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health at the Yale … Read more
Nov 7, 2013
A new case study released by Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR) with support from the Milbank Memorial Fund shares the story of South Carolina’s Birth Outcomes Initiative (BOI). The case study, Using Education, Collaboration, and Payment Reform to Reduce Early Elective Deliveries, chronicles how South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services, South Carolina’s largest commercial health … Read more
Oct 23, 2013
The most recent book published in the California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public series, Lead Wars by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, was mentioned in a recent New York Times op-ed by Nicholas D. Kristof on the threat of lead and other toxins to the health of humans. To access the article, click here. Read more
Oct 3, 2013
With the December issue of The Milbank Quarterly, now in its final touches, and the arrival of October first, we come to the final chapter of the distinguished service of Bradford H. Gray as Editor of The Milbank Quarterly. On behalf of the Board and staff of the Milbank Memorial Fund, the Members of the Quarterly’s Editorial Board, and all the readers and authors who have been enriched by the … Read more
Oct 1, 2013
Christopher Koller, president of the Milbank Memorial Fund, discusses the potential impact of the Affordable Care Act on the lives of Americans and the health care system at large in his commentary “What Obamacare Does and Doesn’t Mean,” published by Brown University. To access the article, click here. Read more
Sep 18, 2013
The Milbank Memorial Fund announces the publication of Transforming the Global Health Workforce. Published by NYU College of Nursing, the book addresses key issues that countries face today in building, retaining, and deploying a competent and skilled health care workforce in an increasingly globalized environment. Edited by Marilyn A. DeLuca and Agnes Soucat, the book includes papers written by … Read more
Jul 23, 2013
The Milbank Memorial Fund is pleased to announce the early online publication of an article from the forthcoming issue of The Milbank Quarterly: “Shifting the Paradigm: Using HIV Surveillance Data as a Foundation for Improving HIV Care and Preventing HIV Infection” by Patricia Sweeney and colleagues. The authors, most of whom are with the HIV-AIDS prevention program at the Centers for Disease … Read more
Jul 16, 2013
Mark T. Benton, former senior program officer of the Fund, is now chief of staff for Community Care of North Carolina, a nonprofit organization that provides care coordination and population health management to the state’s Medicaid recipients and other insured and uninsured residents. He began his new position on July 1. Mr. Benton joined the Fund in 2007 after serving as North Carolina’s … Read more
To Oversee or Not to Oversee? Lessons from the Repeal of North Carolina’s Certificate of Public Advantage Law
January 17, 2019
Hospital Mergers and Public Accountability: Tennessee and Virginia Employ a Certificate of Public Advantage
September 26, 2018
Population Health: The Translation of Research to Policy
September 17, 2018
