Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law
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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (JHPPL). Publishing work on health policy initiation, formulation, and implementation, and relationships between government and health—past, present, and future.
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Attention health insurance scholars! You have until 2/1 to submit your manuscripts for consideration for the @jhppl.bsky.social special issue on The Politics of Private Health Insurance, which I'm happily co-editing with @adrianna.bsky.social. If you have questions, let us know.
January 23, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Attention health insurance scholars! You have until 2/1 to submit your manuscripts for consideration for the @jhppl.bsky.social special issue on The Politics of Private Health Insurance, which I'm happily co-editing with @adrianna.bsky.social. If you have questions, let us know.
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Reminder: If you're working on the politics of privatization in health insurance, consider sending it to @jhppl.bsky.social, through which I'm co-editing a special issue with @adrianna.bsky.social. Submissions due 2/1. assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
January 12, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Reminder: If you're working on the politics of privatization in health insurance, consider sending it to @jhppl.bsky.social, through which I'm co-editing a special issue with @adrianna.bsky.social. Submissions due 2/1. assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
Making last-minute syllabi additions? JHPPL has published wide-ranging research touching on domestic and comparative health law, politics, and policy, and spanning both institutional analysis and political behavior. Here is a glimpse at some articles we've published over the years... 🧵
January 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Making last-minute syllabi additions? JHPPL has published wide-ranging research touching on domestic and comparative health law, politics, and policy, and spanning both institutional analysis and political behavior. Here is a glimpse at some articles we've published over the years... 🧵
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More that I'm assigning from @jhppl.bsky.social:
Gusmano and Thompson: "Administrative Presidency, Waivers, & the ACA"
Yours truly: "Rationing by Inconvenience"
Volden: "Policy Diffusion in Polarized Times"
Campbell & Morgan: "Consequences of Medicare Advantage for Beneficiaries & Politics"
Gusmano and Thompson: "Administrative Presidency, Waivers, & the ACA"
Yours truly: "Rationing by Inconvenience"
Volden: "Policy Diffusion in Polarized Times"
Campbell & Morgan: "Consequences of Medicare Advantage for Beneficiaries & Politics"
January 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
More that I'm assigning from @jhppl.bsky.social:
Gusmano and Thompson: "Administrative Presidency, Waivers, & the ACA"
Yours truly: "Rationing by Inconvenience"
Volden: "Policy Diffusion in Polarized Times"
Campbell & Morgan: "Consequences of Medicare Advantage for Beneficiaries & Politics"
Gusmano and Thompson: "Administrative Presidency, Waivers, & the ACA"
Yours truly: "Rationing by Inconvenience"
Volden: "Policy Diffusion in Polarized Times"
Campbell & Morgan: "Consequences of Medicare Advantage for Beneficiaries & Politics"
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Some of the @jhppl.bsky.social representation on my Politics of Health Policy syllabus:
@starrprospect.bsky.social, "Rebounding with Medicare."
@povertyscholar.bsky.social & Alina Lebron, "Racism, Health, and Politics"
Volden & Wiseman, "The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress"
@starrprospect.bsky.social, "Rebounding with Medicare."
@povertyscholar.bsky.social & Alina Lebron, "Racism, Health, and Politics"
Volden & Wiseman, "The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress"
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Some of the @jhppl.bsky.social representation on my Politics of Health Policy syllabus:
@starrprospect.bsky.social, "Rebounding with Medicare."
@povertyscholar.bsky.social & Alina Lebron, "Racism, Health, and Politics"
Volden & Wiseman, "The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress"
@starrprospect.bsky.social, "Rebounding with Medicare."
@povertyscholar.bsky.social & Alina Lebron, "Racism, Health, and Politics"
Volden & Wiseman, "The Determinants of Health Policy Change in Congress"
In our 50th anniversary issue, Caitlin McMurtry analyzed America's changing politics toward firearms. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
This excellent work has now been covered by Out in StL outinstl.com/2025-sees-an...
and the St. Louis American. www.stlamerican.com/news/local-n...
This excellent work has now been covered by Out in StL outinstl.com/2025-sees-an...
and the St. Louis American. www.stlamerican.com/news/local-n...
One man’s story of survival meets new ideas on preventing gun violence
More than 800,000 people in the past 25 years have lost their lives to gun violence in the United States. Another 2 million or more have been injured. A Washington University researcher and a new stu...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In our 50th anniversary issue, Caitlin McMurtry analyzed America's changing politics toward firearms. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
This excellent work has now been covered by Out in StL outinstl.com/2025-sees-an...
and the St. Louis American. www.stlamerican.com/news/local-n...
This excellent work has now been covered by Out in StL outinstl.com/2025-sees-an...
and the St. Louis American. www.stlamerican.com/news/local-n...
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@neillewisjr.bsky.social’s commentary is a gem within @jhppl.bsky.social’s special issue “Public Health Under Siege”, in advance view now.
Equity has always been central to public health, even when forces push it aside. @neillewisjr.bsky.social reminds us to not just defend equity but dream boldly and work together to center justice, listen to communities, and challenge structural racism. Read more:
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The Importance of Dreaming About (and Mobilizing to Create) Equitable Futures | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
@neillewisjr.bsky.social’s commentary is a gem within @jhppl.bsky.social’s special issue “Public Health Under Siege”, in advance view now.
Check our JHPPL's next author interview with @pamherd.bsky.social! @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social interview Pam Herd about her recent JHPPL article, "MAHA Won't Make Americans Healthy Again." Link here: soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
Interview with Pamela Herd.
Author interview with Pamela Herd on her recent JHPPL publication,
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December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Check our JHPPL's next author interview with @pamherd.bsky.social! @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social interview Pam Herd about her recent JHPPL article, "MAHA Won't Make Americans Healthy Again." Link here: soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
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Our paper reflecting on 30 years of Medicaid estate recovery is fully out today! We shed light on policy mechanisms, state variation, and its potential to drive wealth disparities. Thank you to @jhppl.bsky.social for being the perfect home for our work on this understudied, but longstanding, policy.
@aspishakthomas.com @emmasandoe.bsky.social & @heatherhhoward.bsky.social examine Medicaid estate recovery. Some states recently initiated policy changes to address problems with Medicaid estate recovery, and the authors evaluate the impact of these policies. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
Lots of Pain for Little Gain: Three Decades of Medicaid Estate Recovery | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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December 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Our paper reflecting on 30 years of Medicaid estate recovery is fully out today! We shed light on policy mechanisms, state variation, and its potential to drive wealth disparities. Thank you to @jhppl.bsky.social for being the perfect home for our work on this understudied, but longstanding, policy.
Volume 51 Issue 1 of JHPPL is here! 🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...
Volume 51 Issue 1 | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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December 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Volume 51 Issue 1 of JHPPL is here! 🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...
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And for background on the project, check our our piece in @jhppl.bsky.social:
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Never Waste a Crisis: The Past, Present, and Future of FDA Reform | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And for background on the project, check our our piece in @jhppl.bsky.social:
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Calling health politics/policy folks- we're soliciting articles for two new special issues!
1. "Political Economy of Health Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" Guest editors: Ashley Fox, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Jessica Rich, and Sakshi Thorat
Deadline to submit: January 9
1. "Political Economy of Health Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" Guest editors: Ashley Fox, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Jessica Rich, and Sakshi Thorat
Deadline to submit: January 9
December 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Calling health politics/policy folks- we're soliciting articles for two new special issues!
1. "Political Economy of Health Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" Guest editors: Ashley Fox, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Jessica Rich, and Sakshi Thorat
Deadline to submit: January 9
1. "Political Economy of Health Reforms in Low- and Middle-Income Countries" Guest editors: Ashley Fox, Elize Massard da Fonseca, Jessica Rich, and Sakshi Thorat
Deadline to submit: January 9
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I got the opportunity to share my thoughts on @jhppl.bsky.social’s 50th birthday, how health policy scholars can face this difficult moment, and my aspirations for the journal.
Today on the blog:
A Q&A with Sarah Gollust, editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law in celebration of 50 years of the journal: buff.ly/5rp6FVJ
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A Q&A with Sarah Gollust, editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law in celebration of 50 years of the journal: buff.ly/5rp6FVJ
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November 25, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I got the opportunity to share my thoughts on @jhppl.bsky.social’s 50th birthday, how health policy scholars can face this difficult moment, and my aspirations for the journal.
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Don't you ever wish your favorite journal articles could talk to you? (No, just me?!)
Well, I'm thrilled that @jhppl.bsky.social has launched a new author interview series. Take a listen to @neillewisjr.bsky.social in conversation with @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social.
Well, I'm thrilled that @jhppl.bsky.social has launched a new author interview series. Take a listen to @neillewisjr.bsky.social in conversation with @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social.
JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
Interview with Neil Lewis,
Health policy professors Michael Shepherd (University of Michigan) and Miranda Yaver (University of Pittsburgh) interview Professor Neil Lewis (Cornell University) about his forthcoming article in the
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November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Don't you ever wish your favorite journal articles could talk to you? (No, just me?!)
Well, I'm thrilled that @jhppl.bsky.social has launched a new author interview series. Take a listen to @neillewisjr.bsky.social in conversation with @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social.
Well, I'm thrilled that @jhppl.bsky.social has launched a new author interview series. Take a listen to @neillewisjr.bsky.social in conversation with @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social.
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Public Health has been under siege this year, which has been demoralizing. That said, I do think this is an important time to keep dreaming about (and mobilizing) to create a better future. In this conversation (and article behind it), I talked about lessons from the past that are useful now.
JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
Interview with Neil Lewis,
Health policy professors Michael Shepherd (University of Michigan) and Miranda Yaver (University of Pittsburgh) interview Professor Neil Lewis (Cornell University) about his forthcoming article in the
soundcloud.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Public Health has been under siege this year, which has been demoralizing. That said, I do think this is an important time to keep dreaming about (and mobilizing) to create a better future. In this conversation (and article behind it), I talked about lessons from the past that are useful now.
JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
Interview with Neil Lewis,
Health policy professors Michael Shepherd (University of Michigan) and Miranda Yaver (University of Pittsburgh) interview Professor Neil Lewis (Cornell University) about his forthcoming article in the
soundcloud.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
JHPPL is on Soundcloud! Please enjoy our first author interview, in which @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social and @mirandayaver.bsky.social interview @neillewisjr.bsky.social about his recent contribution to the Public Health Under Siege special issue.
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
soundcloud.com/user-1083235...
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Today in @jhppl.bsky.social, we show that few Americans express strong concern about H5N1 health risks.
That's a problem, because public apathy may impede an already-sluggish policy response to a potential pandemic (as @propublica.org documented this week).
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That's a problem, because public apathy may impede an already-sluggish policy response to a potential pandemic (as @propublica.org documented this week).
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Today in @jhppl.bsky.social, we show that few Americans express strong concern about H5N1 health risks.
That's a problem, because public apathy may impede an already-sluggish policy response to a potential pandemic (as @propublica.org documented this week).
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
That's a problem, because public apathy may impede an already-sluggish policy response to a potential pandemic (as @propublica.org documented this week).
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
We are accepting submissions for two special issues!
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We are accepting submissions for two special issues!
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
1. Political economy of health reform in low- and middle-income countries - submissions due 1/9 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
2. The politics of private health insurance - due 2/1 assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
Amid rising ACA premiums sans enhanced subsidies, we're seeing new discourse concerning an alternative. The last time Republicans worked to repeal ACA, Colleen Grogan wrote in JHPPL this analysis of some of the implications of ACA repeal (worse health inequity. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Amid rising ACA premiums sans enhanced subsidies, we're seeing new discourse concerning an alternative. The last time Republicans worked to repeal ACA, Colleen Grogan wrote in JHPPL this analysis of some of the implications of ACA repeal (worse health inequity. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
For broader context on the politics of childhood vaccination, read this 2024 JHPPL article "Policy Feedback and the Politics of Childhood Vaccine Mandates," in which Katie Attwell et al. examined personal belief exemptions to vaccine requirements in California.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For broader context on the politics of childhood vaccination, read this 2024 JHPPL article "Policy Feedback and the Politics of Childhood Vaccine Mandates," in which Katie Attwell et al. examined personal belief exemptions to vaccine requirements in California.
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As we look ahead to SNAP benefits not being administered on November 1, it's a good time to read Mohammed Abba-Aji and Sandro Galea's recent article on the health impact of Administration cuts to non-health structures including related to food assistance. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
The Health Implications of US Federal Changes to Non-Health Structures and Policies | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
As we look ahead to SNAP benefits not being administered on November 1, it's a good time to read Mohammed Abba-Aji and Sandro Galea's recent article on the health impact of Administration cuts to non-health structures including related to food assistance. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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"JHPPL at 50," a special anniversary issue of @jhppl.bsky.social, is now available. Featuring articles on US health care policy, LGBTQ+ health, abortion, guns, and illicit drug policy. View the full TOC: buff.ly/8V8grhf
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October 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"JHPPL at 50," a special anniversary issue of @jhppl.bsky.social, is now available. Featuring articles on US health care policy, LGBTQ+ health, abortion, guns, and illicit drug policy. View the full TOC: buff.ly/8V8grhf
Buy this issue for 50% off: buff.ly/omE0BOr
Buy this issue for 50% off: buff.ly/omE0BOr
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Excited to see this published as part of @jhppl.bsky.social's 50th anniversary edition! The balance between the role of the government and the private sector even in traditionally public programs has continued to evolve in ways which may become even more important in the future.
@rachelsachs.bsky.social & Allison Hoffman examine the government's changing role in health law, with expanding role of the private sector in public insurance & enactment of ACA. They argue that the government's regulatory power may be constrained moving forward. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
The Changing Role of the Government in American Health Law | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press
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October 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Excited to see this published as part of @jhppl.bsky.social's 50th anniversary edition! The balance between the role of the government and the private sector even in traditionally public programs has continued to evolve in ways which may become even more important in the future.
We at JHPPL are now 50! (So much for getting to stay 49 again...) Our former editor @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & new editor @sarahgollust.bsky.social trace our interdisciplinary origins & the many health politics/policy/law challenges we've faced the last 50 yrs. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
October 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We at JHPPL are now 50! (So much for getting to stay 49 again...) Our former editor @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & new editor @sarahgollust.bsky.social trace our interdisciplinary origins & the many health politics/policy/law challenges we've faced the last 50 yrs. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Thorough and important coverage on Medicaid estate recovery, a policy that continues to be understudied, misunderstood, and deeply harmful to families. Behind every bad policy is somehow always, disturbingly, private equity. Follow up this article with our recent MER paper in @jhppl.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thorough and important coverage on Medicaid estate recovery, a policy that continues to be understudied, misunderstood, and deeply harmful to families. Behind every bad policy is somehow always, disturbingly, private equity. Follow up this article with our recent MER paper in @jhppl.bsky.social