The finding’s repeal dismantles the legal architecture that has enabled the United States to treat pollution and subsequent ...

Dana M. Johnson, PhD, is a Health Disparities Research Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.

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Health Affairs' Rob Lott interviews Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel about his new book, Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long ...

More can, and should, be done to improve the transparency and integrity of how local governments help fund Medicaid, but it’s ...

The problems of high prices and complexity of health care cannot be solved by shifting responsibility to people through high-deductible plans linked to spending accounts. Evidence suggests instead ...

CMMI has spent more than a decade learning which organizations consistently deliver high-value care. The next step is to let ...

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and its expansion into clinical analysis and decision support raises questions about how, exactly, physicians’ role in clinical medicine will evolve. These ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Community health workers are uniquely suited to help underresourced communities navigate structural barriers and mitigate the ...

The surge in vaccine litigation is not simply a post-pandemic, temporary issue. It is a deeper erosion of the legal principles that have long supported public health authority.

On January 7, 2026, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a new feature that allows users to review medical test results, prepare for doctor appointments, and seek guidance on diet and fitness—while ...