Publications
Student Reflection: Interdisciplinary Association of Population Health Sciences Annual Conference
January 13, 2026 Jane Murphy successfully defended her dissertation in the fall of 2025! Earlier that year, she leveraged LHC’s Health Policy Conference Travel Scholarship to attend the IAPHS Annual Meeting. Attending the Interdisciplinary Association of...
Policy Watch: Authorizing Health Benefit Plans from Agricultural Organizations in Alabama
May 20, 2025 | Kevin Joseph, LHC Student Assistant Background In the United States, health insurance is subject to regulations under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) signed by President Obama in 2010. The ACA puts certain rules on health services coverage labeled...
Policy Watch: Alabama Medicaid presumptive eligibility for pregnancy services
Policy Watch: Alabama Medicaid coverage of noninvasive colorectal cancer screenings and colonoscopies
February 22, 2025 | Kevin Joseph, LHC Student Assistant Background Established to provide health care coverage to low-income people, Medicaid is a state-delivered health insurance program jointly financed by the states and federal government. Medicaid covers over 80...
Policy Watch: Establishing a taxation system for heated tobacco sticks in Alabama
by Kevin Joseph, Lister Hill Center Intern Background Designed and sold by Philip Morris International (PMI), IQOS is a line of heated tobacco products currently sold in over 60 countries worldwide and a few states in the USA (Tobacco Prevention and Cessation). Per...
Student Reflection: Engagement Scholarship Consortium
January 6, 2025 Hailey Coyle, an MPH student and former Health Policy Ambassador, utilized LHC’s Health and Policy Conference Travel Scholarship in the fall of 2024. In this article, she reflects on her experience attending the annual conference of the Engagement...
Policy Watch: Evaluating the Impact of Medicare Negotiated Drug Prices in Alabama
By Kimberly Randall, Miriam Calleja, Kevin Joseph, Sean McMahon Introduction Prior to 2022, the federal government was legally unable to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on the prices for prescription drugs for Medicare Part D. In recent communications...
Student Reflection: 2024 United to Beat Malaria Summit
Student Reflection: 2024 United to Beat Malaria Summit Tayyaba Khan, an MPH student with an emphasis on global health, utilized LHC’s Health and Policy Conference Travel Scholarship in the spring semester. In this article, she reflects on her experience...
Policy Watch: Alabama Launches Childcare Tax Credit System for Workforce Development Initiative
May 31, 2024 | Kimberly Randall Background Childcare costs are one of the most widespread barriers to preventing parents from re-entering or staying in the workforce. According to the Economic Policy Institute, in Alabama, the average cost of childcare for a single...
Policy Review: Workforce Shortage Trends in Dental Care in Rural Alabama
May 16, 2024 | Dr. Conan Davis, DMD; Dr. Stuart Lockwood, DMD; Dr. Carly McKenzie, PhD Introduction Nationwide, populations in America are migrating away from rural areas to urban areas. We continue to see this happen in Alabama as well. Historically, younger...
Publication Information
Policy Watch: Policy Watch publications are modeled after a traditional white paper but contain plain-text, interdisciplinary analyses of active pieces of legislation or court cases that have potential outcomes on community health. These pieces include the background, text, impact, and trajectory of a particular policy initiative.
Policy Brief: Everything you need to know, all in one place. Policy briefs are a traditional form of civic engagement used to encapsulate broad, often complex, situations and create a one-page document that’s easy to read and distribute to policymakers and citizens alike.
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