RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kent Buse and Amanda Glassman, September 2008, International Encyclopedia of Public Health, First Edition (2008), vol. 5
In 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs and Emily Roessel, September 2008, The Brookings Institution
Julia 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Julia B. Isaacs, August 2008, The Brookings Institution
Julia 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine, July 2008, Brookings Institution
In 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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