CGHA Analysis interprets the Center’s research for a general audience and examines developments in health policy as they occur. It includes short institutional views, longer explanatory briefings and evidence-led data notes; the underlying research and datasets sit under Research and Data.
A summary of CGHA research on vaccine performance, safety, public trust and the limits of compulsion.
How legal process, scientific authority and institutional pressure shape public-health policy—and whether the resulting decisions withstand evidence, scrutiny and correction.
California has a peculiar approach to public health. You can buy cannabis, caffeinated beverages, and cigarettes. But smokers hoping to switch to flavored nicotine vapes face mounting restrictions.
How consumer-oriented AI could help bettors assess prices, challenge loss chasing, and exercise restraint—and what evidence is needed to test its benefits.
An assessment of Britain’s vape taxes and proposed packaging and display rules, with international comparisons and a focus on smoking outcomes.
Why rebuilding trust after COVID requires accessible records, independent scrutiny, transparent conflicts and evidence discipline—not another communications campaign.
Why The Economist’s defense of Anthony Fauci substitutes partisan framing for scrutiny of records, research governance and institutional accountability.
How litigation can move beyond accountability to distort evidence, intimidate researchers and delay medicines, devices and harm-reduction products.
COP31 arrives in Antalya after three decades of climate summits, raising a difficult question: does the process reward measurable results, or simply its own continuation?
The PROTECT Act would spend $500 million fighting youth vaping after use has fallen roughly 70 percent from its peak, while giving too little weight to smoking’s far greater toll.
Aviation taxes are visible and politically convenient, but often poorly aligned with the emissions they claim to price and unevenly felt by the people who pay them.
Lessons from America and Britain on gambling, loneliness, and the new economy of engagement. Despite different markets, the same patterns recur: loss chasing, solitary betting, and wins that feel like relief rather than excitement.
The Relief–Engagement Model explained, drawing on the Pennsylvania and UK survey data behind The House Always Wins.
Real problems affecting some people are increasingly used to justify far broader systems of behavioral management.
Findings from The Great Avoidance on the gap between a policy’s significance and the scrutiny it received.