Research Library

A journal article explores mothers’ perceptions of the importance of health and health care during pregnancy and postpartum and their preferences for communication from a community-based service program.

This study finds that Maryland's all-payer model for healthcare comparatively lowered the risk of complications from surgery, as well as reducing increases in associated costs.

The authors sought to develop and test a tool that accurately predicts the unique financial burden to individual patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, an American Society of Clinical Oncology Journal

Postdoctoral fellow Kenneth Evans examines how President Donald Trump’s executive orders temporarily banning travelers from certain Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. impacted scientific research and the country’s ability to attract and retain the world’s best scientists, engineers, students and educators. Association for Women in Science magazine (p. 10-12): http://bit.ly/2sHZMRs.

As his term progresses, President Trump will be faced with a large number of policy challenges, some of them requiring immediate science & technology expertise. In this Science Magazine article, the authors urge the president to consider the Office of Science & Technology Policy, the science advisor and the presidential S&T councils as vital resources that should be used early in the term to drive his policy agenda.

About 1 million Texans gained health care coverage due to the Affordable Care Act, according to new research by health policy fellows Vivian Ho and Elena Marks. The new findings published in the American Journal of Public Health examined the effects of the ACA’s Marketplace on Texas residents and determined which population subgroups benefited the most and the least.

In the face of a persistent decline and stagnation in research and development funding, scientists and engineers must devote more time and effort toward keeping the economic and societal value of science in the public and advocate for it to hold a higher standing in the federal budget. Published in vol. 2, issue 1, of The Journal of Science Policy and Governance.

The Science and Technology Policy Program reviews the complex federal R&D budget process. Published in July 2011 by Science Progress, a project of the Center for American Progress.