Here at PolicyLab, we know that high-quality preventive health care for both mothers and their babies is critical to promoting long-term health. However, many new mothers are not getting the critical preventive care they need to sta...

As communities reopen across the U.S., developing strategies to prevent another wave of widespread COVID-19 transmission is essential. Many states are mobilizing contact tracing to mitigate continued spread of the virus, but PolicyL...

As communities begin to resume normal activities, it’s essential to start considering strategies to safely reopen schools in the U.S.—from preschool, to K-12, to higher education—following their closure for the COVID-19 pandemic. I...

PolicyLab’s Behavioral Health Portfolio is recognizing Mental Health Awareness Month with a new blog post series featuring experts and guest authors writing on the immediate and long-term effects of COVID-19 on child and family beha...

An interdisciplinary team led by PolicyLab Director David Rubin, MD, MSCE, and PolicyLab researchers Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE, and Jing Huang, PhD, alongside global experts, released new data today that shows projected COVID-19...

The COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying troubling inequities in our health care system. This Minority Health Month, PolicyLab is renewing our focus on how policies and programs can improve the health of historically marginalized childre...

An interdisciplinary team led by PolicyLab Director David Rubin, MD, MSCE, and PolicyLab researchers Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE, and Jing Huang, PhD, alongside global experts, launched a data visualization of their new model toda...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep through our country, we must turn our attention to how communities will safely reopen following the first peak of the virus. To inform discussion and decision-making around our public hea...

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the troubling trend in rising uninsurance and underinsurance among our nation’s youth has never been more urgent. Nearly half a million children in the U.S. have lost health insurance coverage sinc...

We are living in a time of extreme uncertainty as the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact our communities. There is an urgent need to project how the virus will advance to help local, state and federal leaders make evidence-inf...