About The Milbank Quarterly

Continuously published since 1923, The Milbank Quarterly features peer-reviewed original research, policy review, and analysis from academics, clinicians, and policymakers.

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Editor

Alan B. Cohen

Publisher

Christopher F. Koller

Managing Editor

Tara Strome

2-year Impact Factor: 6.6
Journal Citation Reports® 2022 Rankings: 3/87 (Health Policy & Services); 8/105 (Health Care Sciences & Services)
5-year Impact Factor: 8.964

The Latest from The Milbank Quarterly 

Centennial Issue: The Future of Population Health

In celebration of its 100th anniversary, The Milbank Quarterly has published a special issue of 36 articles by a diverse set of leading and emerging scholars. The issue covers:

  • The structural drivers of population health
  • State- and municipal-level policies and strategies to advance population health
  • Key issues in population health and health equity; population health’s major challenges
  • Public health systems and strategies
  • The role of the US health system

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  1. Early View Original Scholarship

    Naming and Framing: Six Principles for Embedding Health Equity Language in Policy Research, Writing, and Practice

    By:  Kamaria Kaalund Jay A. Pearson Andrea Thoumi

    Context: Language specificity in research, advocacy, and writing is an important tool to ensure more equitable health policies. All health policy… More

  2. Early View Original Scholarship

    Innovative Insurance to Improve US Patient Access to Cell and Gene Therapy

    By:  Rena M. Conti Patrick DeMartino Jonathan Gruber Andrew W. Lo Yutong Sun Jackie Wu

    Context: Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) offer treatment to rare and oftentimes deadly diseases. Because of their high price and uncertain clinical… More

  3. Early View Original Scholarship

    How Are You Doing… Really? A Review of Whole Person Health Assessments

    By:  Stephanie B. Gold Allison Costello Maura Gissen Selin Odman Larry A. Green Kurt C. Stange Réna Swann Rebecca S. Etz

    Context: Frustration with the burden of proliferating measures in health care focused on diseases and care processes has added to the growing desire… More

  4. Early View Original Scholarship

    Mental Health Treatment Access: Experience, Hypotheticals, and Public Opinion

    By:  Jake Haselswerdt

    Context: Mental health problems represent a major public health issue for the United States, and access to mental health treatment is both inadequate… More

  5. Early View Original Scholarship

    Comprehensiveness in Primary Care: A Scoping Review

    By:  Agnes Grudniewicz Ellen Randall Lori Jones Aidan Bodner M. Ruth Lavergne

    This scoping review explored how comprehensiveness in primary care is conceptualized and defined in order to map its attributes in support of being able to more clearly and precisely define this key concept in research, practice, and policy. More

Current Issue

  1. In the December 2024 Issue of the Quarterly

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  2. Examining the Inclusion of Trust and Trust-Building Principles in European Union, Italian, French, and Swiss Health Data Sharing Legislations: A Framework Analysis

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  3. When the Bough Breaks: The Financial Burden of Childbirth and Postpartum Care by Insurance Type

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  4. Launching Financial Incentives for Physician Groups to Improve Equity of Care by Patient Race and Ethnicity

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

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

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The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

Getting Things Done in Large Organizations: Lessons from the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program

Addressing persistent and widespread challenges in any large organization necessitates implementation of policies and programs in ways that are…  More

“Too Important for the Games that You’re Playing, Mr. Kennedy” — Michael Bennet, Colorado

In 2022, President Trump held a news conference focused on the COVID epidemic then taking the lives of one of every 300 Americans. During it he…  More
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Bridge the Mental Health Workforce Gap and Transform Care

Artificial intelligence technology has opened a new avenue of opportunity to augment the mental health workforce and increase access to care.   More

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