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November 2023 John E. McDonough,
National and state polls are still early and close regarding the 2024 presidential race between likely nominees President Joe Biden and former… More
November 2023 Paula M. Lantz,
Paula M. Lantz warns against complacency in COVID-19. More
October 2023 Ashley A. Meehan, Joshua M. Sharfstein,
It is no longer novel to point out that housing has substantial impacts on health. Housing quality influences exposure to health harms like lead,… More
August 2023 Harold A. Pollack, Nate Glasser, Selwyn Rogers, Jr.,
Not long ago, some of us were asked to attend a meeting at our institution on the topic of development and employment opportunities for young people… More
July 2023 Sandro Galea,
The recent Supreme Court ruling striking down decades of race-based affirmative action in college admissions has reopened, once again, the national… More
July 2023 Morgan C. Shields, Heidi L. Allen,
Patients of inpatient psychiatry are among the most vulnerable hospital patients and have often described care experiences that were dehumanizing and… More
July 2023 Sara Rosenbaum, Kay Johnson,
Why a modern regulatory framework for EPSDT that accounts for congressional reforms to the benefit, Medicaid’s enrollment expansion, and the transition to managed care is needed. More
June 2023 John E. McDonough,
Has anti-monopoly become a bonafide political movement in the United States? About 300 persons who gathered at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC, on May 4th say yes. Representing diverse organizations and backgrounds, they assembled for a daylong exploration of progress in restoring an aggressive national effort to thwart corporate monopoly across the US economy. More
June 2023 Paula M. Lantz,
The sunsetting of emergency declarations and orders, while signaling a decrease in the turmoil caused by COVID-19, does not mean the pandemic is over in the United States or globally. More
May 2023 Sandro Galea,
At some level, we failed at prevention during the COVID-19 pandemic. If our metric for success was preventing viral spread, illness, or death, then a pandemic in which the United States was hit harder than any other large country showed us that we fell substantially shorter in prevention than we might have hoped. With this as a motivating impulse, I suggest that we ask two questions: what caused the consequences of COVID-19 to be so devastating in the US? And, understanding that, what would be an intellectual and practical agenda for prevention going forward? More
