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Population Health

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  • Quarterly Opinion

    Charlatans, One and All

    October 2025 David Rosner

    The Senate Finance Committee hearings with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) were explosive. The Secretary of Health and Human Services was accused of… More

  • Quarterly Article

    Providing Health Care to People Experiencing Homelessness: Strategies and Challenges for Cross-Sector Initiatives

    September 2025 Michael J. Yedidia Joel C. Cantor

    Cross-sector collaborations among health care and housing services organizations promise more efficient use of resources and delivery of more coherent and effective services to people experiencing homelessness (PEH). More

  • Quarterly Article

    Policy Options for Antimicrobial Resistance: Exploring Lessons From Environmental Governance

    September 2025 Isaac Weldon Kathleen Liddell Kevin Outterson

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health crisis rooted in complex collective action problems. Despite the urgency, policy responses have not kept pace with the escalating threat of drug resistance. By recognizing the similarities between AMR governance and other shared-resource challenges in environmental governance, this article examines potential strategies for AMR governance. More

  • Quarterly Article

    The Ongoing Assault on Science and Truth

    September 2025 Alan B. Cohen

    The Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate all manner of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices from government agencies, universities, and private sector workplaces has been coupled with steep funding cuts to key health agencies and the cancellation or freezing of medical research grants and contracts. It’s not just the careers of promising scientists and medical researchers that are at stake, but also the nation’s preeminent standing in the scientific community. Science unfortunately has become the latest victim in the culture wars taking place in the United States. More

  • Quarterly Opinion

    We Are All Immigrants Now: Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Decimates Health Care Access for All But a Privileged Few

    August 2025 Tiffany Joseph

    The GOP Plan to End Obamacare involves fiscally starving it to death rather than an explicit repeal. Trump’s recent signing of the “Big Beautiful Bill” brings us closer to that harsh reality.   More

  • Alcohol Problems and Policies: The States Have the Power, But Will They Use It?

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    Alcohol Problems and Policies: The States Have the Power, But Will They Use It?

    August 2025 David H. Jernigan

    Alcohol is a causal factor in more than 200 disease and injury conditions in the human body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define excessive drinking as binge drinking (4 or more drinks for women, 5 or more for men on one occasion in the past month), heavy drinking (8 or more drinks for women, 15 or more for men in a week), and any drinking during pregnancy or by persons younger than age 21 years. More

  • A Case Study of Maine’s Risk-Based Firearm Removal Law

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    A Case Study of Maine’s Risk-Based Firearm Removal Law

    August 2025 David B. Joyce Jeffrey Swanson

    Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) are an effective legal tool for reducing firearm suicide by temporarily removing access to firearms for certain individuals who exhibit dangerous behavior. Unlike most state laws restricting access to firearms based on status, ERPOs are predicated on the assessment of future risk of harm to self or other, as determined by civil court file finding. Emerging research indicates that separating those in crisis from lethal means reduces firearm mortality. We assess Maine’s unique approach and consider whether it is a replicable policy option for other states or should be modified to comport with other states’ more broadly applicable model. More

  • Quarterly Article

    Turf Wars: How Growth and Competitive Shocks Have Affected the Performance and Stability of Community Health Centers

    July 2025 Justin Markowski

    Community health centers (CHCs) are a critical and growing part of the health care safety net, doubling over the past 15 years to expand access to essential health care services to over 31 million patients in traditionally underserved communities. More

  • Legal Barriers to Safer Smoking Supplies Cause Harm and Should Be Removed

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    Legal Barriers to Safer Smoking Supplies Cause Harm and Should Be Removed

    July 2025 Corey Davis Amy Lieberman Czarina Behrends

    The United States continues to experience a nearly unprecedented level of drug-related health harms, with over 105,000 Americans dying of overdose in 2023 alone. Although overall overdose deaths declined slightly from 2022 to 2023, rates for Black people continued to rise. Stimulants such as cocaine and methamphetamine are increasingly involved in overdose deaths, and xylazine and other contaminants continue to be prevalent in the illicit drug supply. More

  • Quarterly Opinion

    Medicaid Cuts Are Undemocratic and Not What the American People Want

    June 2025 Jamila Michener Sarah E. Gollust

    Americans from across the political spectrum oppose cuts to Medicaid, believe that the program is effective, and are willing to take steps to defend Medicaid. More