The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

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

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

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

New federal court decisions have delayed the implementation of new rules protecting health care for transgender people issued under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.  More

Civil rights and health equity advocates in the allied fields of population health have worked for decades to get more funding and attention for…  More

It is well established that politics, and the mechanisms of political action, have an important impact on the health of populations. The very…  More

The next decade will be a critical window to prevent measles from regaining a foothold.   More

Data equity refers to the production and distribution of high-quality, inclusive, actionable, and accessible data. Improving data equity involves…  More

Six decades after its creation, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices carries vastly expanded responsibilities, and its recommendations carry substantially greater impact.   More

There is growing recognition that the caustic scientific debates about the impact of masks, social distancing, and remote schooling during the…  More