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Registered Nurse Mariam Salaam administers the Pfizer booster shot at a Covid vaccination and testing site in Los Angeles on May 5, 2022. A fall booster vaccination campaign could drastically reduce Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations this winter.

Improving Health Care Quality

A Fall COVID-19 Booster Campaign Could Save Thousands of Lives, Billions of Dollars

Blog / Oct 05, 2022

Doctor examines patient in exam room

Advancing Health Equity

Engaging Voice to Support Racially Equitable Policymaking

Blog / Oct 04, 2022

Side of a trailer in Wyoming displays crisis hotline number

Advancing Health Equity

What Policymakers Can Do to Address Our Behavioral Health Crisis

Blog / Sep 21, 2022

Inmate waits to be seen by a doctor

Improving Health Care Quality

States Push for Innovative Ways to Improve Health Outcomes for Justice-Involved Individuals

Blog / Sep 13, 2022

Illustration of medicine and dollar signs being crushed by a signed bill

Controlling Health Care Costs

What the Inflation Reduction Act Really Means for Health Care

Podcast / Sep 09, 2022

Geneva Cooley, 72, learns how to use the internet and sets up a gmail account with the help of re-entry coordinator Donna Collins at the Aid to Inmate Mothers house two days after getting released from a life sentence without parole.

Improving Health Care Quality

Providing Health Care at Reentry Is a Critical Step in Criminal Justice Reform

Blog / Sep 09, 2022

Photograph of rows of prescription drugs with pills inside

Controlling Health Care Costs

The Federal 340B Drug Pricing Program: What It Is, and Why It’s Facing Legal Challenges

Explainer / Sep 08, 2022

woman sits on clinic table looking at an empty room

Advancing Health Equity

What Happens When Federal Laws to Provide Emergency Care Clash with State Abortion Laws?

Blog / Sep 08, 2022

Achieving Universal Coverage

Next Steps in Expanding Health Coverage and Affordability

Issue Briefs / Sep 06, 2022

Medical assistant in scrubs checks pregnancy test in clinic room

Advancing Health Equity

The Health Care Safety Net in a Post-Dobbs World

Blog / Jul 21, 2022

A view of the Food and Drug Administration’s campus

Controlling Health Care Costs

The Accelerated Approval Pathway for New Drug Therapies: Controversies and Proposed Fixes

Explainer / Jul 14, 2022

Mother in mask holds daughter on lap while nurse in mask administers shot in arm

Achieving Universal Coverage

Americans Are on the Brink of Experiencing Premium Pain and Health Insurance Loss

Blog / Jul 13, 2022

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