Dear John,

Our April 2025 theme issue focusing on food, nutrition, and health comes out next week. 

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Volume 3, Issue 3 of Health Affairs Scholar features the new series, Health and Political Economy, developed in partnership with the Health and Political Economy Project (HPEP) and supported by the Commonwealth Fund.

This collection explores a range of perspectives on a critical question: Instead of accepting the status quo, how can the U.S. create a more just and inclusive political economy for health?

Featured Papers Series: Health and Political Economy

Health and political economy: building a new common sense in the United States

Victor Roy et al.

Advancing a political economy approach to health using lessons from US antitrust and climate policy

Elizabeth Popp Berman

Reviving public provisioning in US health care

Hayden Rooke-Ley et al

The fundamental importance of social insurance for health equity

Seth A Berkowitz

Centering marginalized care: Home care cooperatives and system change

Geoffrey M Gusoff et al.

Editor’s Choice

Policy strategies for inclusion of pregnant and lactating women in vaccine research

Danielle E Serota et al.

Environmental impact of colorectal cancer screening with colonoscopy and multi-target stool DNA (mt-sDNA) testing

Rebecca Alcock et al.

Join Health Affairs this Tuesday April 8 for a virtual event exploring our theme issue on food, nutrition, and health.

Panel topics include: 

• Food is Medicine,
• Food and Nutrition Insecurity, Equity, and Justice,
• Government Programs & Policies, and
• Community Voices.

Time To Reexamine The Role Of Supplemental Benefits In Medicare Advantage

Molly T. Turco and Meena Seshamani

part of our Supplemental Benefits In Medicare Advantage series

The (Upper) Case For Capitalizing Multiracial

Tracy Lam-Hine et al.