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Quarterly Article
July 2025 Justin Markowski,
Context: 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. However, increasingly, CHCs have opened care delivery locations in communities already served by another CHC, potentially creating competitive markets with unknown implications for how this safety net operates. More
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
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
May 2025 Alan B. Cohen,
At his Senate confirmation hearing last December, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assured Senator Bill Cassidy, a… More
May 2025 Lawrence O. Gostin, Alexandra Finch,
In a radio address on July 24, 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) coined the first “hundred days” as a measure of presidential effectiveness.… More
April 2025 Dalton Conley,
Personalized medicine is one of those ideas that seems so obviously good it barely warrants debate. Why wouldn’t we want to tailor treatments to… More
April 2025 Molly Knowles, Aditi Vasan, Ziwei Pan, Judith A. Long, Shreya Kangovi,
Context: Community health worker (CHW) programs represent a key strategy for addressing social and structural drivers of health and have the… More
April 2025 Nahid Bhadelia, Laura White, Lawrence O. Gostin,
In 2024, we warned about the potential for measles resurgence in the United States, due to declining vaccination rates and growing religious and… More
April 2025 Joshua M. Sharfstein,
It was during the Presidency of George W. Bush in 2006 that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asserted that “the foundation of HHS… More
April 2025 Paula M. Lantz,
Since the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, his administration has “flooded the zone” with a deluge of… More
