In a recent appropriations package for 2024, Congress included several reforms that will increase access to behavioral health ...

In its current state, public health has limited political power and capacity to address the social, economic, and ...

In medical school, students learning about illness, pathology, and disease are trained almost exclusively on images of white patients. Even materials on illnesses that predominantly affect Black ...

For nearly two decades, the Commonwealth Fund has tracked health and health care in each state, seeking both to understand how the policy choices we make affect people’s health outcomes and to ...

Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, is known as the birthplace of gynecology. It’s a brutal history, as the field’s “founding father,” J. Marion Sims, advanced his work through experimentation on enslaved ...

Lili Farhang, M.P.H., serves as one of Human Impact Partners’ two codirectors, leading the overall strategic direction of the organization, in alignment with its mission, vision, values, and its ...

Julian Drix, M.P.H., leads Human Impact Partners’ Bridging Program, which builds partnerships and supports inside-outside strategies between public health agencies and community power-building ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the central importance of a well-functioning health care system. Nations that ensure affordable, efficient, and equitable access to quality care are at a clear ...

For most of its history, Medicaid, the joint state and federal health insurance program for people with low income, has not tied eligibility to employment. This changed during the Trump administration ...

This year in the United States, an estimated 2 million people will receive a new cancer diagnosis, and a growing proportion will be younger adults and people of color. Many of these cases could be ...