Sad to hear that Ted Marmor has passed away. A pioneer who helped create field of health politics & one of the first US scholars to study Canadian health insurance & advocate for single payer.Ted believed in public policy that embraced social insurance to achieve health & social security for all

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

In "Public Health Under Siege," a special issue of @jhppl.bsky.socia (51:2), articles explore the many ways in which public health policy has been transformed and dismantled during the second Trump administration. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/7Vvdiwh

US public health is in crisis. In this special JHPPL issue edited by @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social, you’ll find articles that help contextualize the erosion of public health infrastructure & adoption of policies harmful to public health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

The One Big Beautiful Bill is a big step back for US health policy. My take in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Happy 60th birthday to Medicare and Medicaid! Hang in there, I hear 60 is the new 40

New in JHPPL: special issue marking Medicare’s 60th anniversary. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Volume 50 Issue 4 | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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Great upcoming (and all too timely, given current events) panel on Medicaid with authors from @jhppl.bsky.social special issue

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#Medicaid covers about one in five people nationwide. Join @RWJF and @JHPPL on June 12 @ 3 p.m. ET as we discuss the program’s legacy and future. Speakers include @povertyscholar.bsky.social Andrea Campbell, David Adler and me. Register: bit.ly/4dsIsXR

Josh Hawley would like a word with House Republicans on Medicaid www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

Opinion | Josh Hawley: Don’t Cut Medicaid

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Academic SOS (RIP, paper assignments)

New York Magazine@nymag.com · last yr.

In only two years, ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. James D. Walsh writes for @intelligencer.com: nymag.com/intelligence....

How is this Final 4 different than all others? With Todd Golden, Bruce Pearl & Jon Scheyer, it’s looking a lot like a Passover Seder of NCAA coaches

Any good resources out there on what to do if you receive a NIH termination notice? Asking not for me but a friend

So many organizations I’ve had the privilege of working with received termination letters from USAID this week. Here’s an estimate of how many lives may be lost as a result, in South Africa alone: >500k additional deaths, >500k new infections doi.org/10.7326/ANNA...

Potential Clinical and Economic Impacts of Cutbacks in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Program in South Africa: A Modeling Analysis: Annals of Internal Medicine: Vol 0, No 0

Background: Future U.S. congressional funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program is uncertain. Objective: To evaluate the clinical and economic impacts of abruptly sca...

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Medicaid at 60 special issue from JHPPL is out, ungated. All-star lineup includes: @povertyscholar.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @laurawherryr.bsky.social @joefigs.bsky.social @charleywillison.bsky.social @ericpatashnik.bsky.social & more read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Volume 50 Issue 2 | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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Inbox: Medicaid at 60 issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped. How timely. 😭 But seriously, read the amazing scholarship in this issue for in-depth understanding of the program's past, present, & future. @oberlanderunc.bsky.social @ericpatashnik.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Volume 50 Issue 2 | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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With a looming threat to Medicaid, @jhppl.bsky.social's special issue "Medicaid at 60" provides context to understand the program's remarkable growth since 1965 as well as its resilience & political vulnerability. Free & Open Access! @haroldpollack.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Volume 50 Issue 2 | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

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After 10 yrs as chair of UNC’s Dept of Social Medicine, today is my last day in that role. Thrilled that the awesome Mara Buchbinder will be our new chair. And I am looking forward to post-chair life!

In Covid’s wake, CDC proposed reforms that aim to enhance its performance during the next pandemic. But would they work? Check out Ann Keller’s new ungated JHPPL article #healthpolicy #publichealth: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Earlier this year, Phil Singer, @bradwrightphd.bsky.social, and I published a piece in JHPPL in which we looked at 1332 waiver activity from 2019 to 2023. We examined how the Trump administration used waivers to try to accomplish some of their #healthpolicy priorities, and how Biden reversed course.

Some news from JHPPL: This will be my last year as editor. Excited to announce that @sarahgollust.bsky.social will be the new editor. Sarah will be awesome! CC @dukepress.bsky.social @ericpatashnik.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social @mattmotta.bsky.social

New in JHPPL advanced pubs: special issue on Polarization, Partisanship & Health. With @sarahgollust.bsky.social @efranklinfowler.bsky.social @adrianna.bsky.social @timcallaghan.bsky.social @mattmotta.bsky.social and many more! Ungated: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

I was delighted to host a conference @ the Watson Institute on Medicaid at 60: From Welfare Medicine to America's Most Important Healthcare Program. The conference will lead to a special issue of JHPPL. A summary of the conf is below. @oberlanderunc.bsky.social home.watson.brown.edu/news/2023-10...

Medicaid at 60 Conference

Eric M. Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, and Chair of the Department of Political Science recently convened at a conference at the Watson Institute titled ...

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