Molly and Jack, with Jack looking especially pumpkiny.

Finally, the Leonard S. Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award goes to Andrea Campbell, Nolan Kavanagh (@nolankavanagh.bsky.social), and James Jolin for their paper “Medicaid Made me a Democrat: The Effect of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Partisan Identification” (4/5)

This year we had TWO winners of the David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award, given to mid-career scholars with outstanding research records in the subfield: Ashley Fox and Phil Rocco (@philiprocco.bsky.social) (3/5)

Next, Erik Patashnik (@ericpatashnik.bsky.social) is the 2025 winner of the Award for Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy, given to an individual who has been working to improve health and the healthcare system by actively engaging in politics and policy making (2/5)

As Secretary of the Health Politics and Policy Section: Congratulations to this year’s section award winners! First up is Mark Peterson, who won the Career Achievement Award, given to a senior scholar who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the student of health politics and policy (1/5)

Last but not least, Andrea Campbell, Nolan Kavanagh (
@nolankavanagh.bsky.social
), and
James Jolin won the Leonard S. Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award for their paper “Medicaid Made me a Democrat: The Effect of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Partisan Identification”:

This year the section awarded Eric Patashnik (
@ericpatashnik.bsky.social
) the Award for Outstanding Public Engagement, given to an individual who has been working to improve health and the healthcare system by actively engaging in politics and policy making:

Interested in health politics and policy? Then join us on Friday 11/15 for the Fall 2024 Health Politics Junior Scholar Brown Bag event! It features presentations of work by two amazing junior scholars, Dr. Cydney McGuire & Emma Willoughby. Details & registration: calendar.app.google/VYQP7p8qfhr3...

More specifically, those on the political left/who received two or more COVID-19 vaccine doses became more pro-vaccine post-pandemic, while the political right and the unvaccinated became more anti-vaccine. Overall, this translates to the US public being more pro-vaccine post-pandemic! (3/4)

We find evidence of COVID-19 vaccine spillover onto general vaccine skepticism, flu shot intention, and attitudes toward hypothetical vaccines (i.e., vaccines in development) - the last of which does not have preexisting attitudinal connotations. (2/4)

Thank you! Urban cowboy is 100% one. This guy is too:

There is an important exception regarding immigration stances, trans in the military, and income inequality. In some cases (but not in all cases), rural Democrats tend to be a little bit more conservative (i.e., closer to Republicans) on these policies compared to their non-rural counterparts

Rural residents' views are aligned with their partisanship – rural Dems have similar views to other Dems, rather than being more conservative. Conversely, rural Reps are similar to other Reps, rather than being more conservative. This matters: many rural residents are Dems