Dear John,

Violence permeates our society. One response to violence is to better understand its origins and how to prevent it.

In light of the tragedy that occurred this week in Uvalde, Texas, we invite you to read the Violence and Health issue of Health Affairs to better understand the impacts that gun violence has on communities. This issue will be free to access until June 1, 2022.

We recognize that reading about these topics can be difficult. For Mental Health Awareness month, we'd like to share the reminder that if you are experiencing a mental health emergency, you can call the national helpline at 1-800-662-HELP for support.

This week, we announced the launch of Health Affairs Insider, a membership offering exclusive access to content beyond the journal.

Health Affairs Insider is a membership community that includes exclusive news from Health Affairs, entry to our growing portfolio of virtual events, and curated email newsletters on priority health policy topics. Health Affairs Insider benefits include:

Timely, comprehensive, forward-looking content supported by high-quality data on a broad range of health topics
Expert analysis and curated perspectives that go beyond what is published in the pages of Health Affairs
An insider network with an esteemed community of peers
Information delivered in formats that meet your needs—articles, events, podcasts, newsletters, email alerts, videos, charts, and more

Health Affairs Insider is separate from the peer-reviewed journal content you access with a Health Affairs subscription. You can read more about the launch from Health Affairs Editor-In-Chief Alan Weil.

We're offering a special discount through June 15. Use discount code HAInsider10 for $10 off your membership.

A key piece of the scholarship contained in the Racism & Health issue of Health Affairs was an overview highlighting methodological approaches to measuring structural racism for the purposes of achieving health equity in health care.

On May 31 at 3:00 pm ET, join Rachel R. Hardeman of the University of Minnesota and Brigette A. Davis of the University of California San Francisco, two coauthors of "Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist Health Policy," for a discussion of the methods they featured and the key areas where scholarly attention is needed to advance antiracist health policy research.

In Health Affairs Forefront, articles were published on the topic of substance abuse and methadone treatment delivery, as well as jobs in the health care sector.

Authors tackle the current model of methadone delivery to treat opioid use disorder (OUD) and call for expanding access to methadone treatment.

On the topic of jobs in the health care sector, Grant R. Martsolf and coauthors examine the relationship between class, employment, and the US health care system while David Muhlestein writes about how health care jobs are tied to health reform policies.

Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available — and we’d like to keep it that way. With your support, we can continue to keep our digital publication Forefront free for everyone.

In an episode of This Week, Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander and Vabren Watts discuss this week's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas and the recent history of gun policy in the United States.

Health Affairs and A Will Productions received a Bronze Telly Award for the interview "Racism & Health In US Medicine: A Conversation With Harriet Washington."

In the interview, Harriet A. Washington discusses the history of racism in medicine and research with Vabren Watts, Health Affairs’ director of health equity, and Aletha Maybank, chief health equity officer and senior vice president of the American Medical Association.

We want to give a special shoutout and thanks to Armartes Williams and the team at A Will Productions for their stellar production services and Health Affairs Digital Director Patti Sweet, who served as the video’s director.

We are also thankful to have the support from our advisers for the Health Affairs theme issue on Racism & Health, Rachel Hardeman and José Figueroa.

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