Milbank Quarterly

The Milbank Quarterly presents a virtual issue on facilitating the use of research evidence. The virtual issue includes, in chronological order, twenty-two articles and two commentaries that have been published in the Quarterly between 2001 and 2011.

Read Bradford H. Gray's introduction to the virtual issue here.

The Board of Directors of the Milbank Memorial Fund is pleased to announce it has selected Christopher F. Koller to become the next President of the Fund. He will succeed Carmen Hooker Odom starting July 1, 2013. Mr. Koller, currently Health Insurance Commissioner for the State of Rhode Island, is a nationally recognized leader in state health policy, Medicaid managed care, and health plan regulatory development. For more information on this appointment, please visit http://www.milbank.org/about-the-fund/news.

The Milbank Memorial Fund is pleased to announce the publication of Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, the newest title in its joint series with the University of California Press. In this incisive examination of lead poisoning during the past half century, Markowitz and Rosner focus on one of the most contentious and bitter battles in the history of public health. They detail how the nature of the epidemic has changed, highlight the dilemmas public health agencies face today in terms of prevention strategies and chronic illness linked to low levels of toxic exposure, and ask fundamental questions about the practice and future of public health. The book is available at http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273252.