COVID-19 Articles
Articles on this page address the COVID-19 global health crisis from an array of disciplinary perspectives. These essays explore the pandemic as a political, social, and comparative phenomenon that is likely to redefine public health, health policy, and health care politics for years to come.
Health Insurance Loss during COVID-19 Increases Support for Universal Health Coverage
Ashley Fox, Yongjin Choi, Heather Lanthorn, and Kevin Croke
Introduction to “Subnational COVID-19 Politics and Policy”
Julia Lynch and Sarah E. Gollust
Who Stays at Home? The Politics of Social Distancing in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Paul F. Testa, Richard Snyder, Eva Rios, Eduardo Moncada, Agustina Giraudy, and Cyril Bennouna
Who Counts Where? COVID-19 Surveillance in Federal Countries
Philip Rocco, Jessica A. J. Rich, Katarzyna Klasa, Kenneth A. Dubin, and Daniel Béland
Coping with Denialism: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Adapted and Responded to COVID-19 in Tanzania
Ruth Carlitz, Thespina Yamanis, and Henry Mollel
Investigating Dimensions of Pandemic Inequity Requires a Multidisciplinary Approach
Sarah E. Gollust and Julia Lynch
How the Trump Administration’s Pandemic Health Care Response Failed Racial Health Equity: Case Studies of Structural Racism and a Call for Equity Mindfulness in Federal Health Policymaking
Sara Rosenbaum, Morgan Handley, Rebecca Morris, and Maria Casoni
Unsanitized and Unfair: How COVID-19 Bailout Funds Refuel Inequity in the U.S. Health Care System
Colleen M. Grogan, Michael K. Gusmano, and Yu-An Lin
State Policy and Mental Health Outcomes under COVID-19
Michael W. Sances and Andrea Louise Campbell
The Treatment of Disability Under Crisis Standards of Care: An Empirical and Normative Analysis of Change Over Time During COVID-19
Ari Ne’eman, Michael Ashley Stein, Zackary D. Berger, and Doron Dorfman
Compounding Racialized Vulnerability: COVID-19 in Prisons, Jails, and Migrant Detention Centers
Matthew G.T. Denney and Ramon Garibaldo Valdez
Americans’ View of the Impact of COVID-19: Perspectives on Racial Impacts and Equity
Katherine Carman, Anita Chandra, Carolyn Miller, Christopher Nelson, and Jhacova Williams
Pandemic Politics: Timing State-Level Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19
Christopher Adolph, Kenya Amano, Bree Bang-Jensen, Nancy Fullman, and John Wilkerson
Introduction to “COVID-19: Politics, Inequalities, and Pandemic”
Jonathan Oberlander
Disaster Preparedness and Social Justice in a Public Health Emergency
Harold A. Pollack
Equitable Pandemic Preparedness and Rapid Response: Lessons from COVID-19 for Pandemic Health Equity
Philip M. Alberti, Paula M. Lantz, and Consuelo H. Wilkins
Racism and the Political Economy of COVID-19: Will We Continue to Resurrect the Past?
Zinzi Bailey and J. Robin Moon
Federalism Complicates the Response to the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis: What Can Be Done?
Nicole Huberfeld, Sarah H. Gordon, and David K. Jones
The Emergence of COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Public Health and Political Communication Crisis
Sarah E. Gollust, Rebekah H. Nagler, and Erika Franklin Fowler
Health Equity, Social Policy, and Promoting Recovery from COVID-19
Julia Lynch
Democracy, Capacity, and Coercion in Pandemic Response—COVID 19 in Comparative Political Perspective
Matthew M. Kavanagh and Renu Singh
Understanding the Anemic Global Response to COVID-19
Joshua W. Busby
