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Save to My PortfolioPolitics, and Public Health Policy Reform

Kent Buse and Amanda Glassman, September 2008, International Encyclopedia of Public Health, First Edition (2008), vol. 5

Politics, and Public Health Policy ReformIn an article for the first edition of the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Brookings Scholar Amanda Glassman and Kent Buse, Research Fellow from the Overseas Development Institute, review the major theoretical treatments of politics in the health sector in developing countries and provide examples of common issues that have emerged in the study of the politics of public health policy reform. Read More

Global Health, Developing Countries, Public Health, Politics, Global Poverty

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Save to My PortfolioImpacts of Early Childhood Programs

Julia B. Isaacs and Emily Roessel, September 2008, The Brookings Institution

Impacts of Early Childhood ProgramsJulia Isaacs and Emily Roessel assess the effects of five early childhood education programs—State Pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Model Early Childhood Programs and Nurse Home Visiting—that have had positive impacts on children’s cognitive skills and/or school outcomes. Read More

Education, Head Start, Children & Families, Intergenerational Equity, Public Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSupporting Young Children and Families: An Investment Strategy That Pays

Julia B. Isaacs, August 2008, The Brookings Institution

Supporting Young Children and Families: An Investment Strategy That PaysJulia Isaacs details the evidence supporting the long-term benefits of investment in early childhood education, along with prenatal care and greater access to health care for very young children in impoverished families. In a new Opportunity 08 paper, she proposes federal policies for the next President that will provide big returns. Read More

Children & Families, Education, U.S. Poverty, Health Care, Cost of Living

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioReducing Unplanned Pregnancies through Medicaid Family Planning Services

Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine, July 2008, Brookings Institution

Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies through Medicaid Family Planning ServicesIn this paper, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine analyze the impact of state policies that expanded eligibility for Medicaid family planning services to women who do not meet regular Medicaid eligibility criteria. The results of their research show that the expanded eligibility policies had a significant impact on reducing unplanned births. Read More

Medicaid, Marriage and Family Formation, Public Health, Children & Families, Health Care

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioArtificial Society: Getting Clues on How a Pandemic Might Happen by Creating a Huge Model of the United States

Joshua M. Epstein, April 02, 2008, Federal News Radio AM 1050

With the possibility of a national or international emergency, people need to know how to best be prepared. Joshua M. Epstein discusses how agent-based computational modeling has the ability to create artificial societies to model human behavior in an emergency situation. Read More

Agent-based Models, Homeland Security, Health Care, Public Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Costs of Benefit Delivery in the Food Stamp Program

Julia B. Isaacs, March 2008, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

This study by Brookings expert Julia Isaacs compares the Food Stamp Program with eight other public assistance programs across four measures of program effectiveness—administrative costs, error payments, program access, and benefit targeting. Read More

Earned Income Tax Credit, U.S. Poverty, Children & Families, Working Poor, Public Health

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioQ&A With Joshua Epstein on Computational Modeling

Joshua M. Epstein, March 19, 2008, Brookings Institution

CSED Director and Economic Studies Senior Fellow Joshua Epstein explains his breakthrough computational modeling work, with a focus on how agent-based modeling can help explain human behavior as well as make strides in the public health field. Read More

Agent-based Models, Public Health, Quality-of-Life Issues

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioImproving Health Statistics in Africa

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Philip Osafo-Kwaako, November 03, 2007, The Lancet

The availability of statistics is crucial in the fight against poverty and the lack of reliable and good-quality statistics is a major obstacle to assessment of changes in development indicators in many African countries. Brookings Scholar Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala discusses the importance of improving health statistics in Africa. Read More

Africa, Health Care, Global Health, Developing Countries, Global Economics

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioA Genome-Wide Association Study Implicates Diacylglycerol Kinase Eta (DGKH) and Several Other Genes in the Etiology of Bipolar Disorder

Ben Klemens, May 08, 2007, Molecular Psychiatry (2008) 13, 197–207

Using high-throughput genotyping methods, CSED scholar Ben Klemens and a team of researchers helped identify genes linked to bipolar disorder. Read More

Health Care, Agent-based Models, Public Health, Subjective Well-being

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioToward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach

Derek Cummings, Donald S. Burke, Joshua M. Epstein, Ramesh M. Singa and Shubha Chakravarty, December 2002, The Brookings Institution

CSED Working Paper No. 31: Toward a Containment Strategy for Smallpox Bioterror: An Individual-Based Computational Approach Read More

Agent-based Models, Terrorism, Technology, Public Health

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Julia B. Isaacs

Julia B. Isaacs

Child and Family Policy Fellow, Economic Studies

Julia Isaacs focuses on public investments in children and how children are affected by national budgetary policies. A former federal budget analyst, she also researches the economic mobility of children and families across the income spectrum.
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