A Health Podyssey

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michelle Mello from the Center for Health Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine about her recently-published paper assessing public health laws during the COVID-19 pandemic . They found the public health laws in place as the pandemic emerged, which were framed in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks and subsequent anth...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Mariana Socal from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on a recently-published paper examining sources of production and levels of competition in the global supply chain for generic drugs sold in the United States. Order the March 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and w...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jennifer Kao from the UCLA Anderson School of Management on her paper published in the March 2023 issue examining drug repurposing for COVID-19 treatments during the pandemic. Order the March 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , w...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation on his paper in the March 2023 issue examining the state and local public health workforce between 2017 and 2021 , before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. They found during this period, about half the workforce left their jobs with higher rates for younger and less experienced work...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Robert Tyler Braun from Weill Cornell Medical College on his paper in the February 2023 issue examining trends in nursing home staffing following investment by real estate investment trusts. Order the February 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. Wit...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Clare Brown from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on her recently published paper examining rates of adverse infant outcomes by racial and ethnic categories and subcategories. Order the February 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With yo...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Lisa Rotenstein from Brigham and Women's Hospital on her recently published paper examining the prevalence of mental health treatment during primary care physicians visits between 2006 and 2018. Order the February 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way....

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Louisa Holaday from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who published a paper in the January 2023 issue examining debt burden among medical residents after stratifying by race and ethnicity. Order the January 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that w...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interview Loren Adler from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy on his recently published paper in Health Affairs , which will appear in the February 2023 issue. He and colleagues examined pricing and billing for ground ambulance transportation with a particular focus on who owns the transportation service. The researchers found higher p...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Salin Sriudomporn from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on her paper in the January 2023 issue of Health Affairs examining gaps in immunization funding among 94 low and middle income countries. Order the January 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Kate Bundorf from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University to discuss her paper in the January 2023 issue examining employment and health insurance coverage trends during the COVID-19 pandemic. Order the January 2023 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jennifer Ng’andu, managing director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation of the Healthy Children and Families Program, on her paper published in the December 2022 issue of describing the relationship between income and health and examining how key federal income support policies relate to positive health outcomes. Order the December 2022 issue o...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Sara Yeatman from the University of Colorado Denver to discuss her paper in the December 2022 issue assessing the effects of the 2009 Colorado's Family Planning Initiative on contraceptive access in college completion for women. They found the initiative led to an increase in college completion. Order the December 2022 issue of Health Affairs . C...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Meera Kotagal from Cincinnati Children's Hospital discussing her and colleagues' paper in the December 2022 issue examining 15 different area-based socioeconomic deprivation indices. Order the December 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your s...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Abdinasir Ali from University of Iowa College of Public Health on his research assessing the effects of state eviction moratoriums on mental health. Order the November 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to keep o...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Anna Gassman-Pines from the Duke University on her recent paper assessing disparities in access to unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Order the November 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to kee...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Brent Fulton from the University of California Berkeley on his recent paper on the rise of cross-market hospital systems and their US market power. Order the November 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to keep ou...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Christopher Ruhm from University of Virginia who published a paper in the November 2022 issue of Health Affairs examining the mortality effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic recession. He found that excess deaths in the U.S. during the first year of the pandemic were the result of both pandemic related effects and economic re...

Alan Weil interviews University of Michigan's Lisa Meeks on her recent paper she and colleagues published exploring the topic of mistreatment of physicians with disabilities . Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health . Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their financi...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews University of Massachusetts' Linda Long-Bellil on an overview paper she and co-authors published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs . Using a biopsychosocial definition of disability, the authors found that health disparities among people with disabilities exist along race, gender and sexual orientation lines. Order the October 2022 issu...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Rice University's Madeline Smith-Johnson on a paper in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs assessing rates of disability among transgender and cisgender adults . Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health . Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and Catherin...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Northwestern University's Tara Lagu on the paper she published in the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs examining physicians attitudes toward patients with disabilities . Order the October 2022 issue of Health Affairs on disability and health . Health Affairs thanks the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John D. and C...

Alan Weil interviews Aliza Gordon from Elevance Health on her and coauthors' recently published paper in the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs comparing trends in provider charges for surprise billing between two states, New York and California, which have different mechanisms for setting surprise bill payment levels. Order the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs  for research on nurses, c...

Alan Weil interviews Eric Roberts from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health to discuss his and colleagues recent research comparing the experiences of dual eligibles enrolled in D-SNPs with those enrolled in Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare . Read the full transcript . Order the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs  for research on nurses, care delivery, pharmaceutical...

Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Michael Barnett from Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health to discuss Michael and coauthors recent research on assessing trends in the supply of mental health care practitioners, including psychiatrists and nurse practitioners serving Medicare enrollees . Order the September 2022 issue of Health Affairs  for research on nurses, c...