Brian K. Bruen, M.S., Ph.D. (cand.), is a lead research scientist and lecturer at the Center for Health Policy Research, Department of Health Policy and Management, in the Milken Institute School of ...

Peter J. Cunningham, Ph.D., is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. Formerly a senior fellow at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), he has been extensively ...

Amid our efforts to improve health care quality, we can easily lose sight of the most basic questions. Consider evidence-based clinical guidelines, protocols, and pathways. What are they? How do they ...

Compare the key components of international health systems, including health insurance, health system organization and governance, health care quality and coordination, cost containment, and more.

The United States ranks last among 16 high-income, industrialized nations when it comes to deaths that could potentially have been prevented with timely access to effective health care, according to a ...

The Journal of General Internal Medicine recently published a series of articles on the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) written with support from The Commonwealth Fund, the Agency for Healthcare ...

Sara Schmucker, J.D., is a senior research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. She received her ...

Mirror, Mirror 2024 is your opportunity to explore the impact of policy choices on health and well-being across 10 countries, including the U.S. Read the report here. Employer-sponsored health ...

Explore comparative data on key health system characteristics and performance indicators such as overall health care spending, hospital spending and utilization, health care access, and more.

The Commonwealth Fund has its origins in the philanthropic efforts of the Harkness family. Stephen V. Harkness began his career in New York State’s Finger Lakes region at age 15 as an apprentice ...

First offered in 1925 and envisioned as a “reverse Rhodes Scholarship,” the Harkness Fellowships are the Commonwealth Fund’s longest-running program. Nearly 100 years later, they remain a flagship of ...

J. Michael McWilliams, M.D., Ph.D., is the Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Health Care Policy and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a general internist at Brigham and ...