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Heather Soucy, MPH ’25, is using her new expertise in health policy to fill gaps in the U.S. health care system she witnessed as an emergency department nurse.
Researchers at UPenn and Harvard Chan School have connected losing a federally funded prescription drug assistance program with an increase in mortality among seniors eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
More people living with HIV and enrolled in Medicare are taking modern, less toxic antiretroviral drugs than ever before, according to a new study led by Harvard Chan School. This progress may be upended by recent federal funding cuts to HIV prevention and care programs, however.
As Congress considers cutting billions from Medicaid, experts at Harvard Chan School say such cuts could have profound negative impacts on the health of the roughly 72 million Americans with low incomes or disabilities served by the joint federal-state health insurance program, and on the health providers who serve them.
One hundred days into the new federal administration, a new poll led by researchers at Harvard Chan School reports that major segments of the U.S. public anticipate they will lose trust in public health recommendations with the changes in health agency leadership.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government made record time in facilitating the invention, approval, and distribution of lifesaving vaccines. Eric Hargan, then-deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, shared his insider’s perspective on how.
