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  • Public Health

    Food Industry Engineering Is Less Important Than Access to Gut Microbiota-Accessible Foods for Preventing Chronic Disease

    July 2026 William J. McCarthy,  Darren Lov,  Frederick Ferguson, 

    In this commentary, we applaud Gearhardt and colleagues’ focus on the negative health effects of consuming ultra-processed foods but suggest that the bigger dietary contributor to obesity risk is American consumers’ lack of access to a diverse range of gut microbiota-accessible foods. More

  • Population Health

    Fighting Fire with Fire: GLP-1s and the Political Economy of Population Health

    July 2026 Iliya Gutin, 

    Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have been adopted faster and more widely than any anti-obesity therapy prior. More

  • Aging

    More than 1 Million Americans with an Intellectual and Developmental Disability Live with a Caregiver over the Age of 60

    July 2026 Harold A. Pollack,  Brian Chicoine,  Kamala Gullapalli Cotts, 

    For almost 40 years, Janice cared for Vincent, her son with a developmental disability, at their home in upstate New York. More

  • Fact Sheet State Health Policy Leadership

    Fact Sheet: Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program

    July 2026 Hayley Piazza, 

    Introduction Housing instability and unaffordability are contributing to adverse outcomes across a wide range of health domains. In a Milbank… More

  • Bake Sales Won’t Sustain Wyoming EMS, but a Few Reforms Might

    Milbank State Leadership Network State Health Policy Leadership

    Bake Sales Won’t Sustain Wyoming EMS, but a Few Reforms Might

    July 2026 Franz Fuchs,  Morgan McDonald, 

    Emergency medical services (EMS) are basic lifesaving infrastructure for any community. More

  • Community Voices from North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots Program: Implications for Designing and Evaluating Programs to Address Upstream Drivers of Health

    Policy Report Milbank State Leadership Network State Health Policy Leadership

    Community Voices from North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots Program: Implications for Designing and Evaluating Programs to Address Upstream Drivers of Health

    July 2026 Alida Austin,  Katie M. Huber,  Brianna Van Stekelenburg,  Kody H. Kinsley,  Rebecca G. Whitaker, 

    North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOP) program, which was paused in July 2025 due to state funding constraints, tested whether providing evidence-based services to address upstream drivers of health for eligible Medicaid members could improve health outcomes, reduce costs, and address disparities in three predominantly rural regions of the state. More

  • Managed Care as Medicaid’s Administrative Architecture: Does It Still Provide Value to States?

    Policy Report State Health Policy Leadership

    Managed Care as Medicaid’s Administrative Architecture: Does It Still Provide Value to States?

    July 2026 K. John McConnell,  Hyunjee Kim,  STEPHAN R. LINDNER,  Jane M. Zhu,  David DiGiuseppe,  Hayden Rooke-Ley, 

    As states brace for federal funding cuts and potentially large disenrollments in Medicaid, this report assesses the extent to which Medicaid managed care delivers value across its core functions: reducing financial risk for states; utilization management; network formation; care management; quality improvement; and paying for claims. More

  • Putting the Roadmap to a Comprehensive State Graduate Medical Education Strategy into Practice: State Perspectives

    Policy Report Primary Care Transformation State Health Policy Leadership

    Putting the Roadmap to a Comprehensive State Graduate Medical Education Strategy into Practice: State Perspectives

    July 2026 Lori Rodefeld,  Raquel Davis,  Erin Fraher,  Heidi B. Miller,  Shelby Rimmler-Cohen,  Mary Alice Scott,  Mukesh Adhikari,  Emily M. Hawes, 

    Physician workforce shortages are limiting access to health care in nearly every state, with underserved and rural areas facing the greatest shortfalls. More

  • State Health Policy Leadership

    If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Prepare for It Anyway

    July 2026 Debra Lubar, 

    My second job at CDC was running policy for the chronic disease center. More

  • Fact Sheet

    Fact Sheet: Extending Medicaid Section 1115 Policies to Improve Health for Medicare and Medicaid Beneficiaries

    July 2026 Hayley Piazza, 

    Medicaid Section 1115 demonstration projects, commonly referred to as waivers, are widely used by states to test innovative approaches to improving population health through Medicaid programs. More