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Join us next Tuesday, June 18, from 3-4 p.m. ET for a Health Affairs Journal Club meeting with author Clara Long discussing a qualitative study from our June issue about how community groups can harness their power to address inequities in public health outcomes.

Introducing the 2024 Cohort of Health Equity for Trainees!

These eight early-career researchers will be working with experienced Health Affairs authors and editorial staff for the next 18 months as they prepare manuscripts to be published in Health Affairs or another journal.

Their research covers topics from hospital closures and perinatal health to Medicaid.

Meet our 2024-2025 HEFT Cohort

• Leia Belt, PhD, University of California, Merced
• Joshua Budhu, MD, MS, MPH, Weill Cornell Medicine
• Avareena Cropper, DrPH, MPH, Morgan State University
• Emily Gravlee, PharmD, MS, University of Mississippi
• Nima Khodakarami, PhD, MS, Pennsylvania State University
• Michael Luke, MD, University of Pennsylvania
• Carlie Myers, MD, MS, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Pooja Yesantharao, MD, MS, Stanford Health Care

Community & State is the business segment of UnitedHealthcare that provides health care coverage for the economically disadvantaged, the medically underserved and those without the benefit of employer-funded health plans. These state-based health plans meet local needs, while leveraging the national resources of UnitedHealthcare.

Cory Cronin on Hospitals’ Needs Assessments & Community Health In Ohio

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Cory Cronin of Ohio University on identifying opportunities and understanding how to best align hospitals’ needs assessments and community health In Ohio.

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Insiders get exclusive insights and access to the sharpest minds in health care research through our virtual events and newsletter programs.

For 2024, we secured a suite of health policy experts to write newsletters on health policy reform and developments, drug pricing, healthcare competition and antitrust, and much more.

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CMS Should Create Clinician Workforce Quality Metrics

Robert Longyear and Olga Yakusheva