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ICYMI, Health Affairs This Week featured Jeff Byers and Stacie Dusetzina of Vanderbilt University discussing about the current state of medications used to treat obesity like Ozempic, the likelihood of insurance coverage, drug shortages, and how to ensure this medication finds its way to patients.

Better Playbook For Future Emergencies

In our June issue focusing on Reimagining Public Health, Jennifer Nuzzo of Brown University and her team of coauthors describe their Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies, a proposed national testing playbook.

The authors suggest that the United States’ relatively poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic could be in part due to the lack of a national testing playbook.

Their playbook outlines testing priorities for 6 phases of a response to a biological crisis, and aims to “add nuance and structure to existing preparedness plans, enabling more effective decision making.”

Check out the entire theme issue here!

More on Patient Testing

• Pushy Patients Or Pushy Providers? Effect Of Patient Knowledge On Antibiotic Prescribing In Tanzania by Jessica King et al.
• Shared Decision Making: The Need For Patient-Clinician Conversation, Not Just Information by Ian Hargraves et al.
• A Health Podyssey: Kathryn Phillips Wants to Anticipate Payer Cancer Coverage as Screenings Evolve

Join us Tuesday, June 18 from 3-4 p.m. ET for a Health Affairs Journal Club meeting with author Clara Long and Health Affairs' Jessica Bylander discussing a qualitative study from our June issue about how community groups can harness their power to address inequities in public health outcomes.

This event is open to the public.

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How ONC Can Strengthen Its HTI-1 Rule To Ensure Transparency, Fairness, And Equity In AI

Niam Yaraghi et al.

Unanswered Questions And Unintended Consequences Of State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards

Julie A. Patterson et al.

Celebrating Pride Month

It is Pride Month and we are highlighting  those working to advance health equity and policy for the LGBTQIA+ community.

In a March 2024 article, Yan Guo and coauthors discuss pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) uptake and retention among sexual and gender minority people who have sex with men.