Happy New Year to our readers, and thank you for joining us as we welcome in 2025. Two weeks ago, we took time to review and celebrate our first-ever blog theme: Climate Change and Public Health. We learned a lot during our first year with a theme, and we will take those lessons into 2025.… Read More »
Two recent commentaries about politics and health–one in Medical Care by Dr. Ranit Mishori, and one in The New York Times by Dr. Paul Krugman–made me think about how my pre-academia work experiences might be able to help me have the greatest impact with my research as a new public health faculty member. I decided… Read More »
Value-based care is all the rage in health care system transformation. Promising in concept, value-based care initiatives aim to reward value over volume, shifting our understanding and practice of delivery and payment reform. These efforts received governmental support in 2015 via the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which launched a myriad of quality… Read More »