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The Milbank Memorial Fund supports two state leadership programs for legislative and executive branch state government officials committed to improving population health.
The Fund identifies and shares policy ideas and analysis to advance state health leadership, strong primary care, and sustainable health care costs.
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The Fund publishes The Milbank Quarterly, as well as reports, issues briefs, and case studies on topics important to health policy leaders.
The Milbank Memorial Fund is is a foundation that works to improve population health and health equity.
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Early View Original Scholarship
By: Daniel Baslock, Nari Yoo,
Context: Inadequate descriptions of rurality limit comparisons across rural areas and can lead to overgeneralizations in health policy research.… More
By: Guangyi Wang, Daniel F. Collin, Deborah Karasek, Rita Hamad,
https://youtu.be/SYuXw_GfDUU Context: In July 2021, to alleviate material hardship, Congress temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC),… More
Early View From the Editor
By: Alan B. Cohen,
With each passing day, the United States federal government introduces yet another policy that threatens, rather than promotes, the health and… More
By: Abdinasir K. Ali, Emily C. Dore, Rita Hamad,
In 2021, Congress expanded the earned income tax credit (EITC)—the largest US poverty alleviation program—to young adults without children who had previously been ineligible. More
Early View Perspective
By: ANDRE NOGUEIRA, MARGARET M. FITZPATRICK, ASHLEY GRESH, KENNEDY MCDANIEL, TIFFANY J. RISER, TERRANCE LINDSAY, RANDI WOODS, ADEDOYIN EISAPE, LISA STAMBOLIS, ALICIA COOKE, BRUCE LEFF, ELIANA PERRIN, REGINA HAMMOND, Sarah L. Szanton,
Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other nation, the United States experiences declining life expectancy and increasing chronic disease burden—a paradox reflecting fundamental limitations in the current treatment-centered, facility-based care system. This paper introduces Neighborhood Nursing, an innovative universal care infrastructure designed to shift the US healthcare toward proactive, prevention-centered care organized geographically in neighborhoods. More
Original Scholarship
By: Katherine A. Kennedy, Cyrus Kosar, Madison S. Williams, Kali S. Thomas,
Context: Funded partially by the Older Americans Act, state Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs (LTCOPs) provide a critical role in serving as… More
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The Peterson-Milbank Program for Sustainable Health Care Costs advances state-based efforts to make health care more affordable for residents, employers, and states.
The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan group of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches.
The Emerging Leaders Program seeks to develop practical, hands-on leadership skills in future senior executive and legislative officials.
The Milbank Fellows Program is a leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health.
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The Milbank Memorial Fund President and other staff offer their perspectives on both the latest and perennial issues in population health.
