Public Health

Clorissa Jones (L) looks on as Dr. Lauren Jansson (R) checks her six-month-old son Braxton at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, November 23, 2015. Picture taken November 23, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - GF10000257831

Health Care Policy

Building blocks for addressing social determinants of health

Stuart M Butler

Monday, October 9, 2017

Cigarettes are displayed behind the counter of a convenient store.

Public Health

Discourage smoking by minimizing access to cigarettes

Douglas Luke, Ross A. Hammond, Todd Combs, Amy Sorg, Matt Kasman, Austen Mack-Crane, Kurt Ribisl, and Lisa Henriksen

Monday, October 2, 2017

Sun

Oct

Upcoming Event

Conference: Improving public healthcare through fiscal federalism

9:30 AM - Monday Oct 30, 2017 1:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Access to Health Care

India reforms health: A compendium of writings

Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Reports

22-year-old Errol Samuels from Queens, New York, who lost the use of his legs in 2012 after a roof collapsed onto him at an off-campus house party near where he was attending college in upstate New York, walks with a ReWalk electric powered exoskeletal suit during a therapy session with Alexandra Voigt, a clinical research coordinator and therapist, at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City March 26, 2014. Made by the Israeli company Argo Medical Technologies, ReWalk is a computer controlled device that powers the hips and knees to help those with lower limb disabilities and paralysis to walk upright using crutches. Allan Kozlowski, assistant professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital, where patients like Samuels are enrolled in his clinical trials of the ReWalk and another exoskeleton, the Ekso (Ekso Bionics) hopes machines like these will soon offer victims of paralysis new hope for a dramatically improved quality of life and mobility. The ReWalk is currently only approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in rehabilitation facilities like at Mount Sinai, as they weigh whether to approve the device for home use as it already is in Europe. Picture taken March 26, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA3S1RTR01

Public Health

Nurses as intermediaries in the promotion of community health

Stuart M Butler and Carmen Diaz

Friday, September 22, 2017

Access to Health Care

Private Sector Investment in Global Health R&D

Darrell M. West, John Villasenor, and Jake Schneider

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

A medical worker administers polio drops to an infant at a hospital during the pulse polio immunization programme in Agartala, capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, January 18, 2015. The programme aims to immunize every child in the country under five years of age with the oral polio vaccine. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - RTR4LV6Y

Access to Health Care

Brookings India Health Monitor

Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor

Friday, July 21, 2017

Metro Shooting Supplies' employee Chris Cox speaks to a customer.

Regulatory Policy

How a “no guns” registry could help prevent firearm-related suicides

Ian Ayres and Frederick Vars

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Access to Health Care

Health governance capacity

Darrell M. West, John Villasenor, and Jake Schneider

Wednesday, March 29. 2017

Blog Posts

Customers shop at a Whole Foods store in New York City, U.S., August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RTX3DQOU

TechTank

How the Amazon-Whole Foods merger shrinks food deserts

Jack Karsten and Darrell West

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Up Front

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Will Palmisano, Stephanie Hedt, Loren Adler, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Friday, August 4, 2017

Bottles of medications line the shelves at a pharmacy in Portsmouth, Ohio, June 21, 2017. REUTERS/Bryan Woolston - RTS18A73

Up Front

Reining in pharmaceutical costs

Karen Van Nuys, Dana Goldman, and Ian D. Spatz

Thursday, August 3, 2017

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Events

2017

Oct

Past Event

What does 21st century medicine look like?

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

New directions for communities: How they can boost neighborhood health

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Affordable Care Encourages Healthy Living: Theory and Evidence from China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CST

Beijing

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Experts

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Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

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Multimedia

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