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Briefs & Reports

Proposed Budget Cuts Not Only Hurt CDC and Public Health, They Also Harm State and Local Economies and Employment.  George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Center for Health Policy Research | September 2025

This report by Leighton Ku, Taylor Gorak, Maddie Krips, Anne Morris Reid, and Jeffrey Levi examines the President’s FY 2026 budget proposal to reduce funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and analyzes its economic and employment impacts on states.


The U.S. Playbook to Address Social Determinants of Health. Domestic Policy Council Office of Science and Technology Policy | November 2023

Accountable Communities for Health, Health and Social Service Systems Alignment, and Population Health: Eastern Washington State, 2017-2019. American Journal of Public Health | Stephanie Bultema, Hadley Morrow, Stacy Wenzl | July 2020 

Establishing a Local Wellness Fund: Early Lessons from the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (PDF). California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (CACHI) | Jeremy Cantor, Patricia E. Powers, Barbara Masters | July 2019

Regional collaboration for health system transformation: An evaluation of Washington's Accountable Communities for Health. Center for Community Health and Evaluation | January 2019

Identifying Food Insecurity in Health Care Settings: A Review of the Evidence. Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network | Jacqueline Torres, Emilia De Marchis, Caroline Fichtenberg, Laura Gottlieb | November 2017

Levers of Successful ACOs (PDF). Health Care Transformation Taskforce | November 2017

The Evolution and future of the Healthy Communities Movement. Build Healthy Places Network | Renee Roy Elias, Alison Moore | November 2017

Screening for Social Determinants of Health in Populations with Complex Needs: Implementation Considerations (PDF). Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. | Caitlin Thomas-Henkel, Meryl Schulman | October 2017

Vital Signs Core Metrics: Reducing Measurement Burden. National Academy of Medicine | October 2017

Medicaid Moving Ahead in Uncertain Times: Results from a 50-State Medicaid Budget Survey for State Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation | Katherine Gifford, Eileen Ellis, Barbara Coulter Edwards, Aimee Lashbrook, Elizabeth Hinton, Larisa Antonisse, Allison Valentine, Robin Rudowitz | October 2017

Accountable Health Communities: CMS Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) Screening Tool. Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Alex Billioux, Katherine Verlander, Laura Gottlieb | September 2017

Social determinants of health series: Housing and the role of hospitals (PDF). Health Research & Educational Trust | August 2017

Toward Data-Driven, Cross-Sector, and Community-Led Transformation: An Environmental Scan of Select Programs. AcademyHealth | March 2017

Progress Along the Pathway for Transforming Regional Health: A Pulse Check on Multi-Sector Partnerships (PDF). ReThink Health | Jane Erickson, Bobby Milstein, Lisa Schafer, Katy Evans Pritchard, Carly Levitz, Creagh Miller, Allen Cheadle | March 2017

Measuring Social Determinants of Health among Medicaid Beneficiaries: Early State Lessons (PDF). Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. | Anna Spencer, Bianca Freda, Tricia McGinnis | December 2016

Public Deliberation: What is it and why do it? (PDF) The New York Academy of Medicine | Maya Scherer, Linda Weiss, Alexandra Kamler, Lindsey Realmuto, Marthe Gold | June 2016

Accountable Communities for Health Legal & Practical Recommendations. ChangeLab Solutions and the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative | December 2015

Accountable Communities for Health: Strategies for Financial Sustainability. JSI, Inc. and the California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative | Jeremy Cantor, Rachel Tobey, Kiely Houston, Eliana Greenberg | April 2015