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A Healthier Outlook on AI

As a long-time advocate for strengthening our public health system in the US, I see parallels between public AI and the public health system.

BY Diego Burga

Blog Post

09.05.2024
Public Health

State Efforts to Control Healthcare Costs

States have become laboratories for testing policy and programmatic ideas to address the high costs of healthcare and keep spending under control.A new rep ...

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Publication

05.29.2024
Public Health

Reducing the Health Harms of Firearm Violence

A new report released by the nonpartisan Aspen Health Strategy Group examines the urgent need to reduce firearm injury and proposes opportunities for leaders in the health sector to curb it.

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Publication

02.12.2024
Public Health

The Evolving Role of Hospitals and Health Systems in Community Health and Emergency Preparedness

The COVID pandemic demonstrated the extraordinary dedication and resilience of the nation’s hospitals. But it also exacerbated longstanding financial pre ...

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Publication

01.24.2024
Public Health

"Just Pray Harder": Can Churches be a Resource in the Mental Health Crisis?

Churches have mechanisms to provide counseling and social influence. By harnessing faith communities’ potential to deliver trauma-informed care and destigmatizing mental health messages, we can confront our nation’s mental health crisis more adequately.

BY Religion & Society Program & 1 more

Blog Post

10.16.2023
Public Health

Dialogue on National Fiscal Policy and Health

The Health, Medicine & Society Program has released a new report reinforcing the multidimensional ties between the economic health of a nation and the ...

BY Health, Medicine & Society Program

Publication

10.04.2023
Public Health

Senator Jeff Merkley Keynote Address

“When I learned about Senator Leahy’s programs to heal the wounds of war [I said] this is the right thing to do. I want to help sustain these programs.”

BY The Agent Orange in Vietnam Program

Blog Post

09.03.2023
Public Health

Two New Special Reports

The effects of Agent Orange remain one of the most contentious legacies of the Vietnam War. These two report focus on the hardships faced by Vietnamese people living with Agent Orange–related health problems and disabilities...

BY The Agent Orange in Vietnam Program

Blog Post

09.03.2023
Public Health

Race and Water Equity

Water is essential to our health and survival—both for our nourishment, and for our food to grow—and the ways we access water have the power to sha ...

BY Conversations on Food Justice

Video

07.06.2023
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