The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

On August 17th, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky acknowledged the CDC’s flawed response to the COVID-19 pandemic and announced an agency-wide restructuring.  More

Although funding and access to health care have long been important issues in American public policy, far less attention has been paid to issues relating to public health.  More

State variation in Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care is exacerbating transgender health disparities observed in low-income populations.  More

For decades, corporate mergers and consolidations in the US health care system were like the weather—complain all you want because you can’t do anything about them.   More

The connections between infrastructure and health are robust, from the benefits of green spaces, physical activity, and clean air to the consequences of water pollution, community severance, and environmental contamination.  More

Despite recognizing the importance of the social determinants of health, the health policy and public health community have failed to recognize and reward the profession and practice of social work, say Harold Pollack, Jason Lerner, and Mary Beth Shapley of the University of Chicago Urban Labs.  More

One of the Trump administration’s most dramatic efforts to restructure long-established social welfare policy was a rule, issued in 2019 in the face…  More

Although it may be premature to regard the United States as in a postpandemic world, the health care workforce is showing signs of returning to its…  More

Much ado has been made about the potential for CRISPR technology to radically transform life in domains from agriculture to medicine. No doubt this…  More