Despite Africa’s strong performance in its own battle against COVID-19, its capacities have been drastically underused in the race toward a vaccine. As funding continues to circumvent African trial sites, the consequences are potentially dire. Vaccines need to be tested for safety and efficacy in the populations among which they will be used because different people respond differently to…
For too long, there has been a failure to invest resources and efforts focused on female and sex-specific biology. As a result, we do not…
The Health Affairs fellowship programs provide multi-layered mentorship to early-career researchers as part of the HEFT and Podcast Fellowship programs.
There is an urgent need for the research and clinical communities to understand medication-managed opioid use disorder (OUD) as a long-term, chronic condition, and to…
Telemedicine use remains substantially higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, although it has fallen from pandemic highs. To inform the ongoing debate about…
To build public trust in the Medicare drug price-setting process, CMS must implement a more defined and transparent approach to collecting and using real-world evidence…
The Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program equips doctors to go where they are most needed. Yet, this investment in advancing medical equity is…
Perinatal mental illness is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the first postpartum year in the United States. Although better acute care services…
States, with their broad oversight authority over hospitals and insurers, are beginning to impose their own price transparency requirements on hospitals and insurers, and to…
Building on new research surveying current curricular practices in schools and programs of public health (SPPH), we offer steps that SPPH might take to make…
Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMAD), a leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality, affect approximately one in seven births in the US. To understand…
