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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, January 21, 2021**

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AHEAD OF PRINT

Today, Health Affairs is releasing six commentaries from the National
Academy of
Medicine's (NAM's) Vital Directions for Health and Health Care
project, which proposes health and health care priorities for the new
Biden administration. The cluster

includes these articles:

* Vital Directions For Health And Health Care: Priorities For 2021

Victor J. Dzau of the National Academy of Medicine and coauthors
identify the overarching theme of this series as "the clear and urgent
obligation for the US to turn its full attention to the growing problem
of health inequities and to the structural racism that perpetuates
[health] disparities."

* Infectious Disease Threats: A Rebound To Resilience

Peter Daszak of Ecohealth Alliance and coauthors review pandemic
preparedness in the US and outline steps to strengthen our ability to
anticipate and respond to future pandemics.

* Optimizing Health And Well-Being For Women And Children

Elena Fuentes-Afflick of the University of California San Francisco and
coauthors draw upon a life-course framework to identify promising
interventions to improve the health of women and children.

* Actualizing Better Health And Health Care For Older Adults

Terry Fulmer of The John A. Hartford Foundation and coauthors identify
six strategies to improve care and quality of life for older adults.

* Transforming Mental Health And Addiction Services

Margarita Alegría of Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General
Hospital, and Mass General Research Institute and coauthors describe new
models of care that focus on mental health and addiction.

* Health Costs And Financing: Challenges And Strategies For A New
Administration

William H. Shrank of Humana and coauthors discuss health costs and
financing priorities to advance health care access, affordability, and
equity.

This initiative was originally established by the NAM in 2016 with the
goal of providing the US presidential administration as well as other
policy makers, opinion leaders, and the public with nonpartisan,
evidence-based analysis of the most compelling opportunities and
priorities in health, health care, and biomedical science. The resulting
2017 publication brought together some 150 policy experts to provide
guidance on 19 priorities. In 2020, the NAM reassessed the priorities
and issues of urgent attention for the next administration; today's
cluster of commentaries is the result of the NAM's recent review.

These articles will also be published in

**Health Affairs'** February issue. The publication of the Vital
Directions series in

**Health Affairs** was supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation, the National Academy of
Medicine, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Read the January 2021 Table of Contents
.

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION

Loan Interest Deferment To Improve Access To Medical Education

By Alexander Lupi and Carolina Gomez Grimaldi

Medical school debt contributes to the lack of diversity in medical
school classes, influences graduates' career choices, and can
exacerbate physician burnout and unwellness. Deferment of interest on
medical school loans until the completion of training is a possible form
of relief from the growing debt burden. Read More >>

**A CLOSER LOOK**-Executive Orders And The ACA

****Just over four years ago, Timothy Jost penned a blog post titled
"What Could President Trump Do Through Executive Order To Dismantle The
ACA?
"
As the country prepared for the new administration to take office, many
Americans had the same question. In his post, Jost discusses the steps
needed to take apart the ACA, as it was implemented primarily through
regulation and guidance, as well as the way lawsuits challenging ACA
requirements could dismantle it. After four years of attempts by the
Trump administration to weaken the ACA- many successful-the Biden
administration will begin to rebuild it.

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