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Improving population health and health equity by connecting leaders with experience and sound evidence

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The Latest from The Milbank Memorial Fund

  1. How Health Insurers Can Partner with Grocery Stores to Improve SNAP and WIC Enrollment  

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  2. Equitable Implementation of Public Health Laws Help Ensure that Everyone Benefits

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  3. The Commonwealth Fund 2024 Women’s Health and Reproductive Care Scorecard: Milbank State Leadership Network Post-Briefing Fact Sheet

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  4. Delaware Takes Bold Action to Improve Health Care Affordability 

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  5. Applying an Equity Lens to Policies Designed to Decrease Youth Vaping: A Student Perspective 

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  6. Not Just Squeezing the Balloon: A Comprehensive Set of State Strategies for Addressing Health Care Cost  

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Latest Milbank Quarterly Issue Released:  September 2024

  1. Early View Original Scholarship

    Population Health Implications of Medicaid Prerelease and Transition Services for Incarcerated Populations

    By:  ELIZABETH T. CHIN YIRAN E. LIU C. BRANDON OGBUNU Sanjay Basu

    Context: As states expand prerelease and transition services for incarcerated individuals under the Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration… More

  2. Early View Perspective

    Overcoming the Impact of Students for Fair Admission v Harvard to Build a More Representative Health Care Workforce: Perspectives from Ending Unequal Treatment

    By:  Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Marco Thimm-Kaiser Adam Benzekri Ruth S. Shim Francis K. Amankwah Sara Rosenbaum

    The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., v President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) has had a major… More

  3. From the Editor

    In the September 2024 Issue of the Quarterly

    By:  Alan B. Cohen

    This issue of the Quarterly features several articles related to state health policy for behavioral and mental health, including policy… More

  4. Early View Original Scholarship

    A Comparative Analysis of International Drug Price Negotiation Frameworks: An Interview Study of Key Stakeholders

    By:  Iselin Dahlen Syversen Kevin Schulman Aaron S. Kesselheim William B. Feldman

    The Medicare drug negotiation framework established under the Inflation Reduction Act is far more limited than other frameworks in seven health systems explored in this study. More

  5. Early View Original Scholarship

    A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Implementation of Policies That Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health

    By:  Nicole A. Stadnick Carrie Geremia Megan Wynecoop Amanda I Mauri Kera Swanson Jonathan Purtle

    More than 200 states and local jurisdictions use earmarked taxes — revenue from sales, income, or property taxes — to fund behavioral health services. More

  6. Early View Perspective

    Reforming Physician Licensure in the United States to Improve Access to Telehealth: State, Regional, and Federal Initiatives

    By:  James René Jolin Barak Richman Ateev Mehrotra Carmel Shachar

    The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a dramatic increase in the use of telehealth in the United States,1 aided in no small part by a flurry of temporary… More

The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Are the Kids (Sort of) Alright, After All?

In recent years, there has been a growing focus on a perceived mental health crisis among adolescents, as embodied by the alarming rise in reported…  More
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“Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired”: Inequality, Disease, and Death in American History

The social and economic arrangements Americans have created and maintained have shaped patterns of disease occurrence, prevalence, distribution, and recovery over the course of the country’s history.   More

The Public Health Community Must Stand Up for Greater Resources Devoted to Criminal Justice Research

Working in the fields of substance use and harm reduction, we encounter the suffering and trauma experienced by study participants, community…  More

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State Networks and Leadership Programs

  • Milbank State Leadership Network

    The Milbank State Leadership Network is a bipartisan 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 is a leadership program for executive branch and senior legislative state government leaders committed to improving population health.

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