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...

@neillewisjr.bsky.social’s commentary is a gem within @jhppl.bsky.social’s special issue “Public Health Under Siege”, in advance view now.

Volume 51 Issue 1 of JHPPL is here! 🧵 read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

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...

This entire weekend

2. "The Politics of Private Health Insurance." Guest editors: @mirandayaver.bsky.social and @adrianna.bsky.social. Deadline to submit: February 1 (can be full research articles, commentaries, or "tracking health reform" pieces) We look forward to reviewing your work!

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

I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.

Grim new analysis from KFF: The administration's move to re-adopt the public charge rule could have a chilling effect that leads to several million people dropping Medicaid coverage — including tens of thousands of citizen children www.kff.org/medicaid/pot...

Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.

Not that it should be necessary to refute disgusting gutter racism point by point, but I lived in Minneapolis for 25 years, 17 of those in a neighborhood right near the epicenter of the Somali immigrant community, and I've never had better neighbors anywhere.

Somali people are my neighbors, students, and friends. These attacks are despicable.

While we wait to see what is going on, please note that you can still get most of what is in MEPS microdata from IPUMS: meps.ipums.org/meps/

Yes. But also it had the jingle which I just started singing to myself while reading this. (I am of a certain age.)

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

💬 Viewpoint: @kff.org polling indicates nearly three-quarters of US adults support congressional extension of #ACA premium tax credits, making health care affordability a decisive economic issue in upcoming elections and policy debates. ja.ma/4oZfvaB

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.

It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika

“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...

Wanna see a visual on the result of the Republican attack on public health? I’ve got you covered. This is from Pew Research Center’s most recent survey, showing a 27% drop in Republican support for school vaccine requirements from 2016-2025.

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.

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.

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...

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

I know it’s hard, but remember that it wasn’t just Cassidy that voted for this. It was every GOP senator but McConnell. And a lot of needless suffering will result.

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

I don't even have the words to express my rage.

In case you need a timeline cleanse. #tuxedocatsofbluesky

Important finding: 18% of immigrant parents report they’re avoiding signing up for government health care and other programs This is the “chilling effect” in action which will lead to more uninsured kids 1/4 kids in U.S. have an immigrant parent; most kids are citizens www.kff.org/immigrant-he...

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...

US adults’ awareness of actions threatening public health and science declined between March and September 2025, according to a new survey from @commhsp.bsky.social.

Alarming decline in public awareness of Trump admin public health actions @rebekahnagler.bsky.social @sarahgollust.bsky.social

This will make the housing and homeless crisis much, much worse: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Mark your calendars! Upcoming Unpacking Bedside Bioethics webinar, “Unrepresented: The Ethics of Caring for Patients Without Surrogates" with Jaime Konerman-Sease, PhD, HEC-C. 🗓️: Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT) Register Now! It’s free: z.umn.edu/ap68

Unreal

Seems like a good time to do a special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social on the Politics of Private Health Insurance. Call for papers will be out soon, so stay tuned. There’s seem to be, uh, a few politically relevant topics to discuss. @mirandayaver.bsky.social @adrianna.bsky.social

Republicans waged a relentless, decades-long campaign to privatize Medicare and Medicaid They fought even mild efforts to expand public insurance Now they are objecting to extending extra ACA subsidies, supposedly because money flows to private insurers We are supposed to take this seriously?

This made me laugh. And the replies are adorable. 😻

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...

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. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

See also @jacobhacker.bsky.social & Paul Pierson's 2018 JHPPL article "The Dog That Almost Barked: What the ACA Repeal Fight Says about the Resilience of the American Welfare State." In these unprecedented times, offers needed context on health policy retrenchment read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

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...

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

In case you needed more motivation to rank @dewayneforminneapolis.com #1, last week my 11yo randomly spouted out, "DeWayne 'De-Rock' Davis" and we all need that for our new mayor.

New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis) www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n... 1/3

How do local TV news broadcasts cover Native Americans and their communities? In our newest blog post, Quin Mudry-Nelson shares some topline preliminary findings from the Native American Communication Project: commhsp.org/when-does-u-...

Please donate to your local food bank if you are able. They will be feeling immense strain in the absence of SNAP benefits (and still in the setting of SNAP cuts of the OBBBA).

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.

"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