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Multidisciplinary in nature, policy brings public health theory and research into the practical world to influence change and promote solutions toward health.

06.25.2024 "Observing Science" title and mission on dark grey background

Generating Science That Informs Decision-Making

On science bridging the gap between work that advances thinking and work that has immediate application within society.

Guest Author Sandro Galea

Editor Michael Stein

06.03.2024

Righting Wrongs with Rights

In the first five years following the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there was a 17.5% reduction in Black infant deaths in counties covered by the legislation.

Fellow Jude Sleiman

05.03.2024

America’s Waning Life Expectancy

The gap in life expectancy between Americans and residents of other high-income countries continues to widen.

Fellow Jude Sleiman

04.11.2024 Looking through fence at the outside of a prison

Brutality Behind Bars: Forced Sterilization in Prisons

The forced sterilization of individuals in the United States is an act of legally sanctioned reproductive violence.

Guest Author Naomi Michelson