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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.
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Quarterly Topic
Quarterly Article
April 2023 Tyson H. Brown, Patricia Homan,
Policies that redress oppressive social, economic, and political conditions are essential for improving population health and achieving health equity. Efforts to remedy structural oppression and its deleterious effects should account for its multilevel, multifaceted, interconnected, systemic, and intersectional nature. More
April 2023 Daniel Dawes, Juan Gonzalez,
Notwithstanding its status as a world leader in developing the latest health care advances as well as for spending on health care, the United States has continued to fall behind other developed countries in health rankings. More
April 2023 Amruta Nori-Sarma, Gregory Wellenius,
Solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change can have important health cobenefits. A vital component of these policy solutions is that they must also take into consideration historic issues of environmental justice and racism, and implementation of these policies must have a strong equity lens. More
April 2023 Mary Louise Gilburg,
A slide show featuring The Milbank Quarterly centennial issue themes and selected articles. More
April 2023 Rashawn Ray, Paula M. Lantz, David Williams,
A public policy agenda that aims to address inequities related to the well-being of children, creation and perpetuation of residential segregation, and racial segregation can address upstream factors. More
April 2023 Suhas Gondi, Dave A. Chokshi,
The health of urban populations is dramatically influenced by the urban context, including its social, economic, environmental, and political conditions, in both positive and negative ways. More
April 2023 Alan B. Cohen, Sandro Galea, Paula M. Lantz,
This year marks the 100th anniversary of The Milbank Quarterly. More
January 2023 Lauren A. Taylor, Paige Nong, Jodyn Platt,
Context: Trust plays a critical role in facilitating health care delivery and calls for rebuilding trust in health care are increasingly commonplace.… More
Quarterly Opinion
October 2022 Richard F. Callahan,
Callahan recommends leveraging the bottom-up, intergovernmental approach of the public health field to bring an equity lens to infrastructure projects and build the credibility of the public health field following the Covid-19 pandemic. More
October 2022 Kushal T. Kadakia, Zirui Song,
Rather than focusing on “clinical non-inferiority,” or whether the reform lowers spending without negatively affecting outcomes, the authors propose focusing first on improving health first and second on lowering the implications for spending second. More
