The Health Management & Policy Governance Lab analyzes politics and policymaking to understand how these factors contribute to our health.
Timely teaching: educating around current events in the face of rapid change
Teaching tips from political scientists for addressing current events your classes.
How to… call your legislators
Quick tips on how to call your legislators and express your views.
How To… Make a Public Comment
How to respond to a government agency’s proposed regulations.
Policy Writing Skills Series: Getting it done quickly
Tips on how to write a policy brief very briefly!
Disaster Gerrymandering and Political Opportunism: How the United States Inequitably Responds to Natural Disasters
Considering Policy Alignment in Pandemic Response
Lab Colleagues find the need for scientific advice changes
In a new BMJ article, colleagues compare the role of scientific advice in the UK, France, and Germany.
A New Policy Agenda for Electronic Cigarettes in the US: Preventing Youth Uptake While Still Increasing Adult Smoking Cessation - How To Accomplish Both
The use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in the U.S. has created a public health concern revolving around youth uptake of e-cigarettes (which are nicotine-containing). Meanwhile, e-cigarettes are also used for adult smoking cessation which subsequently reduces an enormous burden of disease.
Policy writing skills series: What is internal advocacy and why should I do it?
How can advocating for change within your organization help you to create change outside it?
Policy writing skills series: Cultivating a policy imagination
Allowing yourself to imagine alternative policies and political systems is an essential part of good policy writing and advocacy.
The HMP Governance Lab Annual(ish) Report
Policy writing skills series: how good are your descriptive skills?
Policy writing skills series: What is a policy brief? How do I write one?
Too Little, Too Late?-The National Restaurant Staffing Shortage
Considering Resilience in Health Systems
We consider how resilience impacts health systems. Informed by HMP Governance Lab collaborator Katarzyna Klasa and her team’s recent publication “System models for resilience in gerontology”.
The Role of Cardiovascular Disease in U.S. Life Expectancy; Stalls Due to CVD, Not Drug Deaths
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) trends have shed new light on life expectancy movement in the United States. The stall in U.S. life expectancy may have a greater relation to the prevalence of CVD than to drug related deaths.
Elite Cueing and Public Opinion; Political Influence on the Ebola and Zika Outbreak Response and How it Shapes our Understanding of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Through understanding how political cueing, partisan attitudes, and polarized media affected the response to the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, we can recognize how those same factors play a role in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Is Medicaid expansion an effective health policy tool to target chronic homelessness?
While Medicaid has the capability to provide much-needed medical and housing services to persons who are homeless in the United States, administrative burden could hinder efficient and effective implementation in cities where it has been expanded.
Now hiring new Fellows!
The HMP Governance Lab is hiring new Fellows for 2021-2023! Learn how to apply here.
Until structural inequalities are addressed, policies promising health equity or reparations will continue to be limited
In her new article, Professor Melissa Creary discusses the reasons why so many policies targeting health equity miss the mark, and what we can do to move forward.