Policy & Practice

Monica Gandhi on why our next pandemic response must center harm reduction, equality, and justice.

Rabies in humans is vanishingly rare, thanks to vaccine mandates. Canine vaccine hesitancy puts that at risk.

Using a public health approach, a Memphis program slowly earned the trust of residents. It lost its funding anyway.

Despite being one of our most impactful public health tools, vaccines continue to be pilloried in the public square.

Efforts to improve public trust in a future Lyme vaccine, and in all vaccines, must begin now.

Medicaid continues to innovate, bringing health care to a larger and more diverse group of people than ever before.

High-profile efforts to improve Medicaid could mean a radical transformation for U.S. public health care.

Online dating apps mean more people don’t know who their hookups are, making STIs harder to trace. Enterprising public health workers are finding ways to turn the apps into tracing tools.

California is about to give insurance coverage to every low-income resident, documented or not.

The law requires hospitals that accept Medicaid to ask for patients’ immigration status. It doesn’t require patients to answer.