Top Milbank Quarterly Articles and Opinions of 2025 

We are pleased to present our top 10 most-read Milbank Quarterly articles of 2025. 

1. Innovative Insurance to Improve US Patient Access to Cell and Gene Therapy by Rena M. Conti, Patrick DeMartino, Jonathan Gruber, Andrew W. Lo, Yutong Sun, Jackie Wu 
2. Health Equity Benefits All Communities (Including White Ones) by Philip M. Alberti 
3. Naming and Framing: Six Principles for Embedding Health Equity Language in Policy Research, Writing, and Practice by Kamaria Kaalund, Jay A. Pearson, Andrea Thoumi 
4. How Are You Doing Really? A Review of Whole Person Health Assessments by Stephanie B. Gold, Allison Costello, Maura Gissen, Selin Odman, Larry A. Green, Kurt C. Stange, Réna Swann, Rebecca S. Etz 
5. Changing the Story on Health and Racial Equity: Why Public Health Needs an Infrastructure for Building Narrative Power by Lori Dorfman, Sarah E. Gollust, Makani Themba, Pritpal S. Tamber, Anthony Iton 
6. The Political Economy of the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines by Kristina Jenei 
7. Scaling an Evidence Based Community Health Worker Program with Fidelity: Results and Lessons Learned by Molly Knowles, Aditi Vasan, Ziwei Pan, Judith A. Long, Shreya Kangovi 
8. Strategies for and Barriers to Communicating About Health Equity in Challenging Times: Qualitative Interviews with Public Health Communicators by Sarah E. Gollust, Kristina Medero, Quin Mudry Nelson, Ceron Ford, Erika Franklin Fowler, Jeff Niederdeppe, Rebekah H. Nagler 
9. Lobbying in the Shadows: A Comparative Analysis of Government Lobbyist Registers by Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Hedeeyeh Baradar, Eric Crosbie, Katherine Cullerton 
10. Centering Equity in Evidence Informed Decision Making: Theoretical and Practical Considerations by Bomi Kim Hirsch, Kiersten Frobom, Gillian Giglierano, Michael C. Stevenson, Marjory L. Givens 

As well as the top 5 most read Opinion peices.

1. Who’s Affected by Medicaid Work Requirements? It’s Not Who You Think by Sara Rosenbaum, Marc A. Cohen, Jane L. Tavares, Alison Barkoff 
2. Death by a Thousand Federal Cuts: Trump Administration Actions Will Not Make America Healthy Again by Paula M. Lantz 
3. The FDA in the Second Trump Administration  by Paul T. Kim  
4. Medicaid Cuts Will Heighten the US Mental Health and Substance Use Crisis by Beth McGinty, Magdalena Cerdá 
5. Behind the Assault on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Steven H. Woolf