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The Cornell Health Policy Center organized its first Business Leaders Roundtable in New York City last week with the aim of engaging senior industry leaders from the health care sector with existing and upcoming research on topics like...

Health Affairs Forefront. In a new survey of leading health care policy scholars conducted by the Cornell Health Policy Center, more than three quarters of respondents felt that the Medicaid work requirements introduced by the One Big...

Most health policy experts don’t think new Medicaid work requirements introduced in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) would substantially increase employment among Medicaid-enrolled, working-age adults, according to a new survey...

The threat of mosquito-borne diseases, which climate change is expected to exacerbate, highlights local politics’ pivotal and understudied role in public...

Cornell researchers found that by prioritizing the perspectives of white Americans instead of those from underrepresented groups, studies of pandemic disparities likely missed important insights from those most affected by...

Transgender women are nearly 20 times more likely to be infected with HIV than the national average in India, a country with the third largest HIV epidemic worldwide. In spite of India’s robust “test and treat” program, which offers...

Residents receiving long-term care in nursing homes are medically complex. Half of these residents require assistance with at least four activities of daily life while also often dealing with dementia or hypertension.  Dr. Hye-Young Jung,...

Dr. Robert Tyler Braun, assistant professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College, was interviewed by Devan Burris of CNBC about the increasing cost of nursing homes and hospices and the impact of private equity...

Healio featured commentary from Dr. Amelia Bond, associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, on a recent American College of Rheumatology letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in response to proposed rule...

Non-white communities had significantly less access to opioid medications commonly prescribed for moderate to severe pain than white communities over the decade beginning in 2011, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine...