Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion passed in 2010, Medicaid work requirement proponents have sought to convince policymakers that…  More

By continuing to innovate their crisis response and prevention capabilities, states have a unique opportunity to address persistent behavioral health crises and the disparities that drive them.  More

Given common physiological and social changes associated with aging, older adults face greater risks of substance-related harms than do younger adults who experience the same patterns of substance use.  More

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

Recent political events have data custodians and users across the country asking an important question—if the federal government is backing away from its historical role as a leader in advancing data quality and data democracy, what does it mean for the future of representation and evidence-based policy development?   More

Our survey found that a high proportion of the American public (almost 80%) had heard about the firing of federal scientists and health workers, and a substantial number had heard of federal cuts to health research and treatment abroad (73.7%), to indirect costs (73.3%), and to specific research grants (70.2%).  More

In 2024, we warned about the potential for measles resurgence in the United States, due to declining vaccination rates and growing religious and…  More

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

Public health in America faces a paradox: its mandate encompasses the population as a whole, yet the infrastructure of public health—the teams of…  More

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