Our mission is to use research to inform policy, reform structural health inequities, and improve public health outcomes.

Our Goals:

  • Educate on health policy, substance use disorder, and drug policy topics.
  • Provide recommendations to decision-makers, synthesizing and analyzing the available scientific literature.
  • Initiate new research to fill gaps in the evidence.

“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman…”

Dr Martin Luther King, March 25, 1966

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Learn more about Health Policy Network and about the founder, Gail Groves Scott, MPH.

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Heat Emergencies and Lancaster’s Jail

Heat Emergencies and Lancaster’s Jail

At 9:15 AM, it was already uncomfortably warm in the meeting room in the Lancaster County (PA) jail, where the Prison Board held its June 26th meeting. The room, like most of the aging  county correctional facility, lacked air conditioning.  People fanned themselves,...

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