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The Latest from The Milbank Memorial Fund

  1. Join a Webinar on Using Hospital Financial Analysis to Inform Policies on Affordability and Access

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  2. Improving Primary Care Access When You Can’t Wait for Policy Change 

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  3. A New Standard for Categorizing and Collecting Non-Claims Payment Data  

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  4. Considerations for Statewide Advanced Primary Care Programs

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  5. Testimony: How Primary Care Improves Health Care Efficiency

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  6. Understanding the Commercial Determinants of Health Webinar

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Latest Milbank Quarterly Issue Released:  March 2024

  1. From the Editor

    In the March 2024 Issue of the Quarterly

    By:  Alan B. Cohen

    After celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Milbank Quarterly in 2023, we begin the process of plotting the journal’s next century with an… More

  2. Early View Perspective

    Asking MultiCrit Questions: A Reflexive and Critical Framework to Promote Health Data Equity for the Multiracial Population

    By:  Tracy Lam-Hine Sarah Forthal Candice Y. Johnson Helen B. Chin

    Racial inequities in health and well-being began in the United States with colonization and slavery and have persisted as direct consequences of… More

  3. Early View Perspective

    Keeping It Political and Powerful: Defining the Structural Determinants of Health

    By:  Jonathan C. Heller Marjory L. Givens Sheri P. Johnson David A. Kindig

    When the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) published their framework for the social… More

  4. Early View Perspective

    Overcoming Common Anxieties in Knowledge Translation: Advice for Scholarly Issue Advocates

    By:  Paul Kershaw Verena Rossa-Roccor

    Faced with urgent threats to human health and well-being such as climate change, calls among the academic community are getting louder to contribute… More

  5. Early View Perspective

    Policy Interventions to Enhance Medical Care for People With Obesity in the United States—Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions

    By:  James René Jolin Minsoo Kwon Elizabeth Brock Jonathan Chen Aisha Kokan Ryan Murdock Fatima Cody Stanford

    Health policymakers have insufficiently addressed care for people with obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥ 30 kg/m2) in the United States. Current… More

  6. Early View Perspective

    Revising the Logic Model Behind Health Care’s Social Care Investments

    By:  Laura M. Gottlieb Danielle Hessler Holly Wing Alejandra Gonzalez-Rocha Yuri Cartier Caroline Fichtenberg

    Over the last decade, health care sector activities related to identifying and addressing patients’ social drivers of health have graduated from… More

The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Americans Who Live with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Learn about measures that can help address challenges that prevent people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from getting needed mental health care.  More

Challenges for In Vitro Fertilization After Alabama’s Decision in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine

ar from keeping courts away from social controversy as promised, the Dobbs decision – and the individual state power to dictate circumstances under which patients can access myriad types of reproductive health care it unleashed – pose implications that remain unpredictable, inequitable, and heart-wrenching for patients and providers alike.  More

What We Are Made Of

Since 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been monitoring Americans’ bodies for the presence of 212 chemicals, detailing…  More
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State Networks and Leadership Programs

  • Milbank State Leadership Network

    The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan, voluntary, self-governing group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches.

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  • Emerging Leaders Program

    The Emerging Leaders Program seeks to develop practical, hands-on leadership skills in future senior executive and legislative officials.

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  • Milbank Fellows Program

    The Milbank Fellows Program (MFP) is a one-year leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health in their communities.

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