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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Article
September 2026 Sara Rosenbaum,
Beginning in 2025, longstanding opponents of vaccines have held the highest positions of federal public health policy powers. More
September 2026 Mary-Margaret A. Fill, William Schaffner,
Over the last decade, the United States has encountered numerous infectious disease-related public health threats, observed declines in life expectancy and childhood vaccination rates, and experienced rapid changes and reorganizations to the domestic public health system. More
September 2026 Jennifer Karas Montez, Jacob M. Grumbach,
American federalism involves decentralized policymaking across federal, state, and local governments. More
August 2026 Lucinda B. Leung, Valerie P. Nguyen, Christine M. Thompson, Jasmeen J. Santos, Catherine E. Brayton, Susan L. Ettner, José J. Escarce, Alexander D. McCourt,
Telehealth can improve access to medical and mental health care for rural and under-resourced communities. More
July 2026 Harold A. Pollack, Richard Frank, Sherry Glied,
Since the early 1960s, US policymakers have sought to assist persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) and persons living with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) to live on a human scale with their clinical and service needs met in their communities. More
Quarterly Opinion
June 2026 Pauline J. Lapin, Laurie McWright,
Federal, state, and local governments have increasingly focused on innovation, hiring Chief Innovation or Technology Officers to find solutions to improve the delivery of benefits and services and to address unresolved health care issues. More
June 2026 Alina Salganicoff, Ivette Gomez, Usha Ranji,
Access to sexual and reproductive health care varies widely by geography, and state-level policies play a major role in establishing the contours that govern the coverage, provision, availability, and costs of services. More
June 2026 Amy Belflower Thomas, Reena Chudgar, Whitney Magendie, Megan McClaire, Joneigh S. Khaldun,
The US public health system is facing an inflection point characterized by chronic underinvestment, workforce and service delivery challenges, outdated data infrastructure, growing health inequities, and increasing instability within the broader health care safety net including projected Medicaid coverage changes and continued rural hospital closures. More
June 2026 Andrew Fenelon,
Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. More
May 2026 Jonathan M. Metzl,
In April 2018, a naked man with an AR-15 burst into a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee. Firing at random, he murdered four people and gravely injured five more before escaping into the night. More
