Public & Population Health

Having now seen the president’s budget proposals for fiscal year 2017 and 2018, AcademyHealth remains highly troubled about what they mean for public health and health research.

AcademyHealth’s Community Health Peer Learning Program explored 17 national and regional programs supporting local and cross-sector collaborations focused on population health improvement at the community level.

AcademyHealth’s Community Health Peer Learning Program explored 17 national and regional programs supporting local and cross-sector collaborations focused on population health improvement at the community level.

This first installment of the Payment Reform for Population Health blog series focuses on how health care delivery systems can collaborate with multiple sectors to support community health improvement.

AcademyHealth is proud to be an official partner for the March for Science, and we will be marching alongside our colleagues in the broader scientific community on the 22nd in honor of our mission to improve health and the performance of the health system by supporting the production and use of evidence to inform policy and practice.

AcademyHealth is deeply troubled by the president’s budget and the signal it sends to the nation’s scientific enterprise.

In Mexico, not only did a sugar-sweetened beverage tax work, it appears to be working more as time goes on.

This rapid evidence review examined current evidence on the effect of earned-income tax credits on the health of U.S. adults.

It can sometimes feel like there's nothing we can do to improve population health. That's just not true.