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Turning Insights into Impact: The Future of Smarter Health Systems

Healthcare systems around the world face growing pressure. Rising costs, uneven access, and shifting disease patterns demand smarter solutions. That’s where a critical question emerges: how can data-driven policy making improve health systems in a meaningful and lasting way? The answer lies in how effectively policymakers use data to guide decisions, allocate resources, and design […]

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Analytics

Why Your Statistical Model Might Be Misleading You (And What Public Health Practitioners Should Do About It)

Public health decisions depend on data. But what if the way we analyze that data is quietly leading us in the wrong direction? A recent commentary highlights a surprisingly common issue in public health research: many studies use the wrong statistical models—or interpret them incorrectly—when working with simple yes/no outcomes like depression, substance use, or […]

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Analytics

Mapping High Social Vulnerability, Rural Poverty, and Healthcare Organizations

If you want to understand American healthcare, don’t start with hospital rankings. Start with geography. We analyzed 4,523 non-profit healthcare organizations operating across 1,508 U.S. counties. For each county, we examined three structural markers: the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), rural classification, and the presence of high-poverty census tracts. The goal was simple. Are healthcare […]

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Research

 From Compliance to Confidence: Practical Ways to Put Patients in the Driver’s Seat

Healthcare continues to evolve at a rapid pace. New technologies, updated policies, and shifting patient expectations are transforming how care is delivered. Yet one principle remains constant: better outcomes happen when patients take an active role in their own care. That’s why understanding how to empower patients in healthcare has become essential for providers, administrators, […]

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Funding

Why Hospitals Are Turning to Blockchain

It started with a gap on the shelf. When a hospital supply manager did her morning check, two portable monitors were missing—again. They hadn’t been checked out, logged, or replaced. Later that day, she learned the same facility had been hit by a data breach. Patient records and inventory files were exposed. The cost wasn’t […]

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Funding

New Study Reveals 3 Keys to Smarter Health Care Dashboards

What does a kidney transplant really cost—not just to the hospital, but to the patient living through it? For most clinicians, managers, and even patients, the answer has remained surprisingly murky. While health systems worldwide race to implement value-based health care (VBHC), an approach that defines value as outcomes relative to cost, one piece of […]

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Analytics

What Can a Wolf Teach Us About Public Health Data?

Ever feel overwhelmed by your own data? Maybe you’re sitting on 200 survey variables, trying to figure out which ones actually matter. Or you’re evaluating a program with a rich but chaotic dataset—clients, services, outcomes, and community factors all jumbled together. You know there’s insight in there somewhere, but where do you start? Enter: the […]

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Analytics

Cancel Culture for Science: Explore the Cuts to U.S. Biomedical Research

As of April 2025, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated nearly 800 active research projects. These weren’t failures or frauds—many were top-rated by peer reviewers and were actively making progress on issues such as COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, mental health, and health equity. The reason? Politics. As part of a sweeping realignment of federal […]

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Research

Training the Next Generation of Public Health Data Scientists in Africa

Imagine a future where robust, real-time data power public health decisions in Africa. Where malaria outbreaks are predicted and contained early, maternal health interventions are tailored to specific regions, and health policies are crafted based on solid evidence. This isn’t a distant dream—it’s the vision driving the Advancing Public Health Research in Eastern Africa through […]

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Workforce

Where to find the removed CDC data

We’ll cut to the case. Go here to access the data removed from the CDC’s website. The link will take you to the Internet Archive. About 2300 .csvs, along with other files. Be Part of the Public Health Movement! Join thousands of professionals and enthusiasts who rely on our curated articles to stay informed. Subscribe […]

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