Kristin Podsiad, MCRP, MPH, is a senior policy analyst at the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy.

In the past few decades, obesity rates among American children have skyrocketed. Although many factors have played a part in this unhealthy increase, this paper focuses on how economic policies ...

Deportation—and the arrests and detention that precede it—is inherently violent and harmful to health. Public health and ...

As health equity scholars whose work centers on understanding, and mitigating the harms caused by mass incarceration, we and ...

Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Jonathan Perlin of The Joint Commission about the origins of this commission, the impacts ...

CMS has a narrow, time-sensitive window to launch a national deprescribing demonstration to safely reduce or discontinue ...

Given the Trump administration’s priorities and CMS’s recently announced strategy around evidence-based prevention and cost ...

The cost of health care, the competitiveness of markets, and private equity’s troublesome record in the health sector are ...

Jonathan Oberlander reviews “The Transformation of American Health Insurance” by Troyen Brennan, which explores Medicare for ...

Digital health tools in the reproductive space often blur the line between wellness and medical care, which can obscure their ...

Medicare is on shaky ground in the current policy environment, making it difficult to sustain its accomplishments, much less ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) can now negotiate the prices of a set of drugs that represent significant Medicare expenditures. The long-term success of negotiations will depend ...