Overview Dr. Mays present Delivery and Financing Systems for Population Health: Networks, Incentives, and Policy at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Population Health Workforce Initiative meeting. This workshop for the CDC's new Population Health Fellowship program reviews the...

Overview Dr. Mays traveled to Virginia to present Public Health System Capital and its Health and Economic Returns during the Public Health Accreditation Board Quarterly Meeting. A growing body of research indicates that strong community networks supporting multi-sector contributions to population...

Overview On June 27, Mays conducted a methods workshop for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) annual meeting of State Environmental Health Directors (SHED) in Pasadena, CA on “Using Economic Evaluation Methods to Understand the Value of Public Health Interventions.”...

Overview Objectives: Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues finds wide geographic and intertemporal variation in the relationship between income and life expectancy in the U.S., using 1.4 billion administrative tax records from the IRS linked to nearly 7 million federal death records. Many...

Overview Dr. Mays presented Income, Life Expectancy, and the Strength of Multi-Sector Networks for Population Health before the Prevention and Population Health Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center (CMMI) in Baltimore, Md. Landmark research by Raj Chetty and colleagues...

Overview Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems show that hospital and employer contributions to population health activities vary widely across U.S. communities. As peripheral participants in the organizational networks that support population health activities, these...

Overview We review recent research concerning multi-sectoral partnerships aimed at improving health status on a population-wide basis, with a particular focus on implementation strategies and on health and economic impact. While still preliminary and emerging, research indicates that large health...

Overview The National Longitudinal Survey of Public Health Systems has followed a nationally-representative cohort of U.S. communities since 1998 to measure the scope of public health activities implemented in each community and the range of organizations and sectors that contribute to each activity...