The Health Management & Policy Governance Lab analyzes politics and policymaking to understand how these factors contribute to our health.
Political Culture and Lockdown Policy
Liberal democracies, like most European countries and the United States, have a cultural aversion to lockdowns and the sacrifices necessary to make them effective.
Children’s health care access in the US- four years going backwards
Children’s health care access in the United States has seen massive strides but since 2016 conservative state and federal government policies have led to an increase in the number of uninsured children.
What should governments do to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic?
To address the COVID-19 pandemic, governments need to do four things. Unfortunately, many are failing to adequately govern, test and trace, protect against the spread of the disease or support those in need through health and social policies.
Translating Federal COVID-19 policy
In the absence of a widely administered vaccine, analysis remains one of our most important tools in addressing the coronavirus pandemic. In the US, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic requires subnational governments to analyze their own local readiness to relax (or increase) restrictions. These efforts require three kinds of data: on the spread of disease, on the effects of the disease across the population and on the available infrastructure to test, trace and treat.