Healthy Policy Web Resources

Following are websites related to health and health policy.

• Federal Agencies
• Independent Agencies
• Information Resources
• Media
• Organizations
• Think Tanks/Thinkers

Federal Agencies

• Executive Office of the President (EOP)
  • Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
  • President’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
• Department of Defense (DoD)
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
  • Center for Faith-based and Community Initiatives
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    • CDC Washington
  • Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
  • Indian Health Service (IHS)
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    • Department of Bioethics
    • National Institute of Mental Health
    • National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • Office for Civil Rights
  • Office of Minority Health (OMH)
  • Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE)
  • Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR)
  • Office on Women's Health
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• Department of Labor (DOL)
• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

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Independent Agencies

• Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• Government Accountability Office (GAO)
• Library of Congress
  • Congressional Research Service (CRS)
• Social Security Administration (SSA)

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Information Resources

• CQ HealthBeat
• Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere
• Health Reform
  • Alliance for Health Reform's "Covering Health Issues," 5th Edition
  • Health Reform and the Department of Health and Human Services
  • Health Reform GPS
• Kaiser Family Foundation's 2010 "Medicare: A Primer"
• National Health Policy Forum's Background Paper: "The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): The Fundamentals"
• O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University: "Legal Solutions in Health Reform"
• Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lecture Series
• U.S. Health Policy Gateway

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Media

• PBS NewsHour

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Organizations

• AARP
• AFL-CIO
• American Hospital Association (AHA)
• American Public Health Association (APHA)
• America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
• Families USA
• Federation of American Hospitals (FAH)
• Johnson & Johnson
• Leapfrog Group
• March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health
• National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH)
• National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
• National Governors' Association (NGA)
• Obesity Society
• Project HOPE
• Research!America
• sanofi-aventis U.S.
• Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
• World Health Organization (WHO)

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Think Tanks/Thinkers

• AcademyHealth
• Alliance for Health Reform
• American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research (AEI)
• American Institute for Research (AIR)
• APSA Political Science Perspective
• Brookings Institution
• Cato Institute
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
• Center for the Advancement of Health (CFAH)
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Duke University Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy
• Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI)
• George Washington University (GWU)
• GWU Medical Center
• Georgetown University
• Georgetown University Law Center
• Grantmakers In Health (GIH)
• Health Policy Alternatives (HPA)
• Health System Change (HSC)
• Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC)
• Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
• Heritage Foundation
• Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF), Alternative Futures Associates
• Institute for Health Policy Solutions (IHPS)
• Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• National Business Group on Health (NBGH)
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
• National Health Policy Forum
• National Quality Forum (NQF)
• New America Foundation
• Progressive Policy Institute (PPI)
• Public Citizen Health Research Group
• Smithsonian Institution
• Urban Institute

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