About The Milbank Quarterly

Continuously published since 1923, The Milbank Quarterly features peer-reviewed original research, policy review, and analysis from academics, clinicians, and policymakers.

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Alan B. Cohen

Publisher

Christopher F. Koller

Managing Editor

Tara Strome

2-year Impact Factor: 6.6
Journal Citation Reports® 2022 Rankings: 3/87 (Health Policy & Services); 8/105 (Health Care Sciences & Services)
5-year Impact Factor: 8.964

The Latest from The Milbank Quarterly 

Centennial Issue: The Future of Population Health

In celebration of its 100th anniversary, The Milbank Quarterly has published a special issue of 36 articles by a diverse set of leading and emerging scholars. The issue covers:

  • The structural drivers of population health
  • State- and municipal-level policies and strategies to advance population health
  • Key issues in population health and health equity; population health’s major challenges
  • Public health systems and strategies
  • The role of the US health system

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  1. Early View Perspective

    Asking MultiCrit Questions: A Reflexive and Critical Framework to Promote Health Data Equity for the Multiracial Population

    By:  Tracy Lam-Hine Sarah Forthal Candice Y. Johnson Helen B. Chin

    Racial inequities in health and well-being began in the United States with colonization and slavery and have persisted as direct consequences of… More

  2. Early View Perspective

    Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health

    By:  Jonathan C. Heller Marjory L. Givens Sheri P. Johnson David A. Kindig

    When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More

  3. Early View Perspective

    Overcoming Common Anxieties in Knowledge Translation: Advice for Scholarly Issue Advocates

    By:  Paul Kershaw Verena Rossa-Roccor

    Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More

  4. Early View Perspective

    Policy Interventions to Enhance Medical Care for People With Obesity in the United States—Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions

    By:  James René Jolin Minsoo Kwon Elizabeth Brock Jonathan Chen Aisha Kokan Ryan Murdock Fatima Cody Stanford

    Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the United States. Current… More

  5. Early View Perspective

    Revising the Logic Model Behind Health Care’s Social Care Investments

    By:  Laura M. Gottlieb Danielle Hessler Holly Wing Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha Yuri Cartier Caroline Fichtenberg

    Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More

  6. Early View Perspective

    Integrated Devices: A New Regulatory Pathway to Promote Revolutionary Innovation

    By:  Ted Cho Vrushab Gowda Henning Schulzrinne Brian J. Miller

    Virtually all modern medical devices now include embedded software, ranging from basic user interfaces and network connectivity to sophisticated… More

  7. Early View Original Scholarship

    Assessing the Impact of the 340B Drug Pricing Program: A Scoping Review of the Empirical, Peer-Reviewed Literature

    By:  Timothy W. Levengood Rena M. Conti Sean Cahill Megan B. Cole

    Our scoping review provides a roadmap of the questions being asked about the 340B program and an initial synthesis of the answers. More

  8. Early View Original Scholarship

    Is White Evangelical Antistructural Theology Related to Poor Health Outcomes?

    By:  David A. Kindig Yasmin Mohd Ariffin Hannah Olson-Williams

    This study finds that every percent of evangelicals in a county is associated with 4.01 more premature deaths per 100,000 population and 0.13% fair/poor health. More

  9. Early View Perspective

    Toward a Climate-Ready Health Care System: Institutional Motivators and Workforce Engagement

    By:  Caleb Dresser Zachary Johns Avery Palardy Sarah McKinnon Suellen Breakey Ana M. Viamonte Ros Patrice K Nicholas

    An exploration of opportunities to move the US health care system toward climate readiness through institutional motivators, efforts to address barriers to action, and broad-based engagement of the health care workforce. More

  10. Early View Perspective

    Multisector Collaboration vs. Social Democracy for Addressing Social Determinants of Health

    By:  Seth A. Berkowitz

    This article argues that social democracy requires political contestation but has greater potential than multisector collaboration to improve population health and health equity. More

  11. Early View Original Scholarship

    Building High-Performing Primary Care Systems: After a Decade of Policy Change, Is Canada “Walking the Talk?”

    By:  Monica Aggarwal Brian Hutchison Reham Abdelhalim G. Ross Baker

    Context: Despite significant investments to transform primary care, Canada lags behind its peers in providing timely access to regular doctors or… More

  12. Early View Original Scholarship

    Caught Between a Well-Intentioned State and a Hostile Federal System: Local Implementation of Inclusive Immigrant Policies

    By:  Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young Sharon Tafolla Fabiola M. Perez-Lua

    The tensions among state immigrant policies, local immigration climates, and federal policy changes indicate that state immigrant policies are not implemented equally across state communities, resulting in challenges and limited benefits from policies for many immigrant communities. More

  13. Early View Original Scholarship

    Association Between Partisan Affiliation of State Governments and State Mortality Rates Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By:  Steven H. Woolf Roy T. Sabo Derek A. Chapman Jong Hyung Lee

    Context: Increasing polarization of states reached a high point during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the party affiliation of elected officials often… More

  14. Early View Original Scholarship

    Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Flexibilities and Public Health: Implementation of Compulsory Licensing Provisions into National Patent Legislation

    By:  Lauren McGivern

    Although it will not fully solve patent barriers to the access of medicines, implementation of compulsory licensing (and specifically those for the import and export of pharmaceutical products) will provide governments with another tool to safeguard their population’s public health. More

  15. Early View Original Scholarship

    Improving Food and Drug Administration–Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Coordination for Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval

    By:  Peter J. Neumann Elliott Crummer James D. Chambers Sean R. Tunis

    Context: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s accelerated-approval pathway expedites patient access to promising treatments. However,… More

  16. Early View Original Scholarship

    Dual Barriers: Examining Digital Access and Travel Burdens to Hospital Maternity Care Access in the United States, 2020

    By:  Peiyin Hung Marion Granger Nansi Boghossian Jiani Yu Sayward Harrison Jihong Liu Berry A. Campbell Bo Cai Chen Liang Xiaoming Li

    Context: With the increases in nationwide hospital maternity unit closures, there is a greater need for telehealth services for the supervision,… More

  17. Early View Original Scholarship

    Community Health Center Staff Perspectives on Financial Payments for Social Care

    By:  Justin M. Lopez Holly Wing Sara L. Ackerman Danielle Hessler Laura M. Gottlieb

    Context: A growing crop of national policies has emerged to encourage health care delivery systems to ask about and try to address patients’ social… More

  18. Early View Original Scholarship

    Unrealized Cross-System Opportunities to Improve Employment and Employment-Related Services Among Autistic Individuals

    By:  Anne M. Roux Kaitlin K. Miller Sha Tao Jessica E. Rast Jonas Ventimiglia Paul T. Shattuck Lindsay L. Shea

    Context: Employment is a key social determinant of health. As such, high rates of unemployment, underemployment, and poverty across the rapidly… More

  19. Early View Original Scholarship

    The Role of Place in Person- and Family-Oriented Long-Term Services and Supports

    By:  Chanee D. Fabius Safiyyah M. Okoye Mingche M. J. Wu Andrew D. Jopson Linda C. Chyr Julia Burgdorf Jeromie Ballreich Danny Scerpella Jennifer L. Wolff

    A framework and analyses describing the variable relationships between LTSS-relevant environmental factors and person-reported care experiences. More

  20. Early View Perspective

    Moving Toward Inclusion: Access to Care Models for Uninsured Immigrant Children

    By:  Katelyn Girtain Sural Shah Ana C. Monterrey J. Raul Gutierrez Mark Kuczewski Julie M. Linton

    The United States is home to 44.9 million immigrants who contribute unique assets, economic stability, and rich lived experiences to communities… More

  21. Early View Perspective

    Advancing Dialogue About Consent and Molecular HIV Surveillance in the United States: Four Proposals Following a Federal Advisory Panel’s Call for Major Reforms

    By:  Stephen Molldrem Anthony K J Smith Alexander McClelland

    On October 17th, 2022, the US Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) adopted a nonbinding resolution about domestic molecular HIV… More

Current Issue

  1. In the March 2024 Issue of the Quarterly

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  2. Causal Assessment of Income Inequality on Self-Rated Health and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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  3. Stopping the Vicious Cycle: Equitable Enforcement Strategies to Achieve Safe, Stable, and Accessible Housing for People with Disabilities

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  4. Mapping the Lobbying Footprint of Harmful Industries: 23 Years of Data From OpenSecrets

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  5. Four System Enablers of Large-System Transformation in Health Care: A Mixed Methods Realist Evaluation

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  6. In the December 2023 Issue of the Quarterly

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The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Americans Who Live with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Learn about measures that can help address challenges that prevent people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from getting needed mental health care.  More

Challenges for In Vitro Fertilization After Alabama’s Decision in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine

ar from keeping courts away from social controversy as promised, the Dobbs decision – and the individual state power to dictate circumstances under which patients can access myriad types of reproductive health care it unleashed – pose implications that remain unpredictable, inequitable, and heart-wrenching for patients and providers alike.  More

What We Are Made Of

Since 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been monitoring Americans’ bodies for the presence of 212 chemicals, detailing…  More
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