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June 2026 Mary Louise Gilburg,
Nick Macchione serves as chief health officer and chief executive at East Campus Medical Center at UC San Diego Health. In these dual roles, Macchione works with senior leaders to enhance UC San Diego Health’s organizational structure, streamline operations and expand strategic partnerships to ensure the broader community has access to our world-class care and leading-edge therapies. More
Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as chief executive officer at the FrameWorks Institute. Nat oversees the organization’s pioneering, research-based approach to strategic communications, which uses methods from the social and behavioral sciences to measure how people understand complex socio-political issues and tests ways to reframe them to drive social change. More
June 2026 Alan B. Cohen, Tara Strome,
It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of David Rosner, an esteemed member of The Milbank Quarterly’s Editorial Advisory Board and a long-time contributor and friend of the Milbank Memorial Fund. More
Social drivers of health State Health Policy
June 2026 Andrew Fenelon,
Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. More
Commercial Determinants of Health
June 2026 John E. McDonough,
I’ve been examining how public policies have facilitated the transformation of America’s health and medical care systems into today’s financialized and commercialized realities. More
When Georgetown University’s Larry Gostin arrived in Geneva for the World Health Assembly in late May, the World Health Organization (WHO) was… More
Global Health
June 2026 Lawrence O. Gostin,
When I arrived in Geneva for the World Health Assembly in late May, the World Health Organization (WHO) was scrambling to contain two extremely… More
June 2026
In partnership with the Center for Aging and Policy Studies and Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University, The Milbank Quarterly will publish a special issue to advance knowledge on the connections between policies and population health in a changing US context. More
Health Insurance
June 2026 Leighton Ku,
Medicaid Section 1115 demonstration projects are widely used to test innovative policies but are subject to “budget neutrality” limits so that federal expenditures do not exceed what the federal government would have spent if the project was not adopted. More
Health Equity Population Health
June 2026 Kellee White Whilby, Makeda Walelo, Heron Bondoc,
Racial equity impact assessments (REIAs) are used by local governments to integrate equity considerations into policymaking and decision-making processes by evaluating potential impacts of proposed legislation before enactment. More
