The Milbank Quarterly Opinion

The connections between infrastructure and health are robust, from the benefits of green spaces, physical activity, and clean air to the consequences of water pollution, community severance, and environmental contamination.  More

Despite recognizing the importance of the social determinants of health, the health policy and public health community have failed to recognize and reward the profession and practice of social work, say Harold Pollack, Jason Lerner, and Mary Beth Shapley of the University of Chicago Urban Labs.  More

One of the Trump administration’s most dramatic efforts to restructure long-established social welfare policy was a rule, issued in 2019 in the face…  More

Although it may be premature to regard the United States as in a postpandemic world, the health care workforce is showing signs of returning to its…  More

Much ado has been made about the potential for CRISPR technology to radically transform life in domains from agriculture to medicine. No doubt this…  More

The Biden administration has made Medicaid a central feature of its Build Back Better health policy platform, with a goal of reducing disparities.…  More

Back in my 20s, in early 1980s Massachusetts, I was a tenant organizer and advocate. I learned quickly that the landlord-tenant space was zero-sum,…  More

Health equity has become a familiar buzzword in public health. There is, however, little consensus about what it means and how to measure it.…  More

Paula M. Lantz discusses the implications for population health and public policy on the declining birth rate in the US.  More