Public Policy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Clawbacks". 
  • "Death and taxes": a contrary view. 
  • A UNOS perspective on donor liver allocation. United Network for Organ Sharing. 
  • A conceptual model of work and health disparities in the United States. 
  • A crisis in the marketplace: how food marketing contributes to childhood obesity and what can be done. 
  • A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. 
  • A public health perspective on healthy lifestyles and public-private partnerships for global childhood obesity prevention. 
  • Abortion: why the arguments fail. 
  • Achieving fire-safe cigarette legislation through coalition-based legislative advocacy. 
  • Advancing public health obesity policy through state attorneys general. 
  • After Harvey, Irma, and Maria, an Opportunity for Better Health-Rebuilding Our Communities as We Want Them. 
  • Ageing and generational conflicts: a reply to Sarah Irwin. 
  • Air Pollution and Health - A Science-Policy Initiative. 
  • Analysis of educational materials and destruction/opt-out initiatives for storage and use of residual newborn screening samples. 
  • Application description and policy model in collaborative environment for sharing of information on epidemiological and clinical research data sets. 
  • Approaches to the development of broadly protective HIV vaccines: challenges posed by the genetic, biological and antigenic variability of HIV-1: Report from a meeting of the WHO-UNAIDS Vaccine Advisory Committee Geneva, 21-23 February 2000. 
  • Are births underreported in rural China? Manipulation of statistical records in response to China's population policies. 
  • Associations of housing mobility interventions for children in high-poverty neighborhoods with subsequent mental disorders during adolescence. 
  • Basic Science and Public Policy: Informed Regulation for Nicotine and Tobacco Products. 
  • Beyond Parental Leave: Paid Family Leave for an Aging America. 
  • Bilateral action for right whales. 
  • Biodefence and the production of knowledge: rethinking the problem. 
  • Birth planning propaganda, incentives and peer pressure. 
  • Boiler Briquette Coal versus Raw Coal: Part II-Energy, Greenhouse Gas, and Air Quality Implications. 
  • Bringing molecular tools into environmental resource management: untangling the molecules to policy pathway. 
  • Can food be addictive? Public health and policy implications. 
  • Carceral epidemiology: mass incarceration and structural racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Changing concepts of morbidity and mortality in the elderly population. 
  • Cholera control and anti-Haitian stigma in the Dominican Republic: from migration policy to lived experience. 
  • Climate change and the integrity of science. 
  • Community intervention and public policy in the prevention of antisocial behavior. 
  • Conducting empirical research on informed consent: challenges and questions 
  • Connecting AAC devices to the world of information technology. 
  • Connecting child care quality to child outcomes: drawing policy lessons from nonexperimental data. 
  • Correlates of support for a nicotine-reduction policy in smokers with 6-week exposure to very low nicotine cigarettes. 
  • Costa Rica's payment for environmental services program: intention, implementation, and impact. 
  • Creating Healthy Communities after Disasters. 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Decision strategies to reduce teenage and young adult deaths in the United States. 
  • Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. Minutes of meeting March 8-10, 2000. 
  • Determinants and consequences of retirement among men of different races and economic levels. 
  • Donald Trump: a political determinant of covid-19. 
  • Drinking and Schooling 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of public financing of essential maternal and child health interventions across wealth quintiles in Nigeria: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis. 
  • Environment. Can we defy nature's end? 
  • Environmental health in China: progress towards clean air and safe water. 
  • Environmental science. Aging infrastructure and ecosystem restoration. 
  • Equal Opportunity and Genetic Intervention 
  • Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. 
  • Ethical issues in umbilical cord blood banking. Working Group on Ethical Issues in Umbilical Cord Blood Banking. 
  • Expert Evidence, The Adversary System, and the Jury 
  • Fertility of rural China: effects of local family planning and health programs. 
  • Framing economic inequality and policy as group disadvantages (versus group advantages) spurs support for action. 
  • Framing public policy and prevention of chronic violence in American youths. 
  • Frequency and Content of Conversations About Pictorial Warnings on Cigarette Packs. 
  • Gender, health inequalities and welfare state regimes: a cross-national study of 13 European countries. 
  • Getting Serious About Reducing Suicide: More "How" and Less "Why". 
  • Gfeller-Waller Concussion Awareness Act. 
  • Global desertification: building a science for dryland development. 
  • Gun Theft and Crime. 
  • HIV and tuberculosis in prisons in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Health services research and how it can inform the current state of ophthalmology. 
  • Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics. 
  • Hospice policy and patterns of care. 
  • How an earnings supplement can affect union formation among low-income single mothers. 
  • Identifying barriers in the malaria control policymaking process in East Africa: insights from stakeholders and a structured literature review. 
  • Inequality, discrimination, and the power of the status quo: Direct evidence for a motivation to see the way things are as the way they should be. 
  • Informed consent and investigational new drug abuses in the U.S. military. 
  • Informing Federal Policy on Firearm Restrictions for Veterans with Fiduciaries: Risk Indicators in the Post-Deployment Mental Health Study. 
  • Institutional care for elders in rural China. 
  • Introduction: Disability policy and the law: much accomplished, much remains to be done. 
  • Leadership in mobilising all for Health for All. 
  • Legal bedrock for rebuilding America’s ocean ecosystems. 
  • Linking job loss, inequality, mental health, and education 
  • Long-term care arrangements in rural China: review of recent developments. 
  • Managing the risks of therapeutic products: proceedings of a workshop. 
  • Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018. 
  • Measuring trust in medical researchers. 
  • Medicine. The need for a global HIV vaccine enterprise. 
  • Mental illness and new gun law reforms: the promise and peril of crisis-driven policy. 
  • Mental illness and reduction of gun violence and suicide: bringing epidemiologic research to policy. 
  • Mifepristone (RU-486®) as a Schedule IV Controlled Drug-Implications for a Misleading Drug Policy on Women's Health Care. 
  • Migration in the urban-rural hierarchy of China: insights from the microdata of the 1987 National Survey. 
  • Modified social ecological model: a tool to guide the assessment of the risks and risk contexts of HIV epidemics. 
  • Multidisciplinary Women's health research: the national centers of excellence in women's health. 
  • Myocardial infarction redefined--a consensus document of The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Committee for the redefinition of myocardial infarction. 
  • Narrowing feedstock exemptions under the Montreal Protocol has multiple environmental benefits. 
  • New Hampshire: the premarital testing debacle. 
  • North Atlantic right whales in crisis 
  • Obesity metaphors: how beliefs about the causes of obesity affect support for public policy. 
  • Older Adults Post-Incarceration: Restructuring Long-term Services and Supports in the Time of COVID-19. 
  • Organ procurement: expenditures and financial incentives. 
  • Organization of work in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing sector in the US southeast: implications for immigrant workers' occupational safety and health. 
  • Ounces of prevention--the public policy case for taxes on sugared beverages. 
  • Outdoor smoking ban at a cancer center: attitudes and smoking behavior among employees and patients. 
  • Perspectives on air quality policy issues in Europe and North America. 
  • Pharmacogenetics: Ethical Issues and Policy Options 
  • Physical activity, genetic, and nutritional considerations in childhood weight management. 
  • Physician participation in health insurance plans: evidence on Blue Shield. 
  • Physician participation in state Medicaid programs. 
  • Political interference in public health science during covid-19. 
  • Practice and public policy in the era of gene-environment interactions. 
  • Predictors of state legislators' intentions to vote for cigarette tax increases. 
  • Prenatal gene tranfer: scientific, medical, and ethical issues: a report of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. 
  • Preventing Alcohol-Related Harm in East Africa: Stakeholder Perceptions of Readiness across Five Countries. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Privatization and just healthcare. 
  • Professionalizing the practice of public policy in the prevention of violence. 
  • Protected area types, strategies and impacts in Brazil's Amazon: public protected area strategies do not yield a consistent ranking of protected area types by impact. 
  • Protecting China's Biodiversity 
  • Providing early detection and early intervention for autism spectrum disorder in South Africa: stakeholder perspectives from the Western Cape province. 
  • Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents. 
  • Public policies to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behavior: a narrative synthesis of "reviews of reviews". 
  • Public policy and obesity: the need to marry science with advocacy. 
  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care. 
  • Rapid self testing for HIV infection. 
  • Reducing Health Inequities in the U.S.: Recommendations From the NHLBI's Health Inequities Think Tank Meeting. 
  • Reexpressing Parenthood 
  • Report finds persisting poverty and social exclusion. 
  • Report on milestones for care and support under the U.S. National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease. 
  • Restricted emigration, system inescapability, and defense of the status quo: system-justifying consequences of restricted exit opportunities. 
  • Risk perception and the value of safety. 
  • Science, policy advocacy, and marine protected areas. 
  • Sex as contract: abortion and expanded choice. 
  • Should an institution that has commercial rights in a new drug or device be allowed to evaluate the technology? 
  • Should the patent system for new medicines be abolished? 
  • Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end. 
  • Socioeconomic status and health across the life course: progress and prospects. 
  • Spiritual values in the setting of health care priorities. 
  • Standards are required for the regulation of consumer groups. 
  • Starting the Conversation: Are Campus Sexual Assault Policies Related to the Prevalence of Campus Sexual Assault? 
  • State-Level Point-of-Sale Tobacco News Coverage and Policy Progression Over a 2-Year Period. 
  • States' allocations of funds from the tobacco master settlement agreement. 
  • Subjective status shapes political preferences. 
  • Support for new policies to regulate firearms. Results of two national surveys. 
  • Supporting the Next Generation of Biomedical Researchers. 
  • Sustaining America's forest legacy. 
  • Targeting lifesaving: demographic linkages between population structure and life expectancy. 
  • The American Heart Association's principles for comparative effectiveness research: a policy statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • The Controversy Over Retrospective Moral Judgment 
  • The Oregon formula: a better method of allocating health care resources. 
  • The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care 
  • The Unrealized Potential of Malpractice Arbitration 
  • The author replies. 
  • The balance of benefit and safety of rosiglitazone: important lessons for our system of drug development and postmarketing assessment. 
  • The challenge of measuring community values in ways appropriate for setting health care priorities. 
  • The effect of school-based kindergarten transition policies and practices on child academic outcomes. 
  • The effects of China's universal two-child policy. 
  • The effects of antipoverty programs on children's cumulative level of poverty-related risk. 
  • The epidemiology and hotspots of road traffic injuries in Moshi, Tanzania: An observational study. 
  • The evolution of advocacy and orthopaedic surgery. 
  • The healthy families act: vital support for families of people with developmental disabilities. 
  • The marketing of dissolvable tobacco: social science and public policy research needs. 
  • The moral limits of population control. 
  • The perils of ignoring history: Big Tobacco played dirty and millions died. How similar is Big Food? 
  • The reasonable woman standard: a meta-analytic review of gender differences in perceptions of sexual harassment. 
  • The role of early experience in shaping behavioral and brain development and its implications for social policy. 
  • The science of youth violence prevention. Progressing from developmental epidemiology to efficacy to effectiveness to public policy. 
  • The second decade: a new beginning. 
  • Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior. 
  • Trust in Managed Care Organizations 
  • Understanding Public Opinion Is Critical for Making Public Policy Democratically. 
  • Using Neuroscience to Inform Tobacco Control Policy. 
  • Using research evidence to reframe the policy debate around mental illness and guns: process and recommendations. 
  • Violent children: bridging development, intervention, and public policy. 
  • Welfare policies and adolescents: exploring the roles of sibling care, maternal work schedules, and economic resources. 
  • What are the key pediatric public policy priorities as the COVID-19 pandemic persists? 
  • What would Mary Douglas do? A commentary on Kahan et al., "Cultural cognition and public policy: the case of outpatient commitment laws". 
  • Who owns the genome? 
  • Why It's Not Time for Health Care Rationing. 
  • Winners & losers: how medical malpractice disputes are resolved 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bowman, Quinlan Bernhard, Lecturer in Ethics and Public Policy at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty
  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society
  • Feaver, Peter D., Professor of Political Science, Political Science
  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Science & Society
  • Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Ginsberg, Zachary, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine
  • Hill, Sherika N, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
  • Korstad, Robert, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Townsend, Matthew, House Staff, Medicine