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Public Health Initiatives Move Ahead Thanks to FPHNYC’s Foundation Partners

Fund for Public Health NYC

One of FPHNYC’s core focuses and areas of expertise is working with foundation partners to secure private funding for programs and initiatives that benefit New Yorkers through the services of the Health Department. Often, these grants help leverage new and additional public investment in vital public health services. The John A.

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Public Health Initiatives Move Ahead Thanks to FPHNYC’s Philanthropy Partners

Fund for Public Health NYC

One of FPHNYC’s core focuses and areas of expertise is working with philanthropic partners to secure private funding for programs and initiatives that benefit New Yorkers through the services of the Health Department. Often, these grants help leverage new and additional public investment in vital public health services. The John A.

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Lower Neighborhood Opportunity May Increase Risk for Preterm Birth

BU School of Public Health Blog

birth Lower Neighborhood Opportunity May Increase Risk for Preterm Birth A new study suggests that neighborhoods with fewer educational, health, environmental, and socioeconomic resources may increase one’s risk for preterm birth and contribute to the racial gap in preterm birth in the Commonwealth. and Rose B.

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Cancer-Causing Chemicals Found in Tap and Bottled Water

Mercola

Drinking clean, pure water is essential for maintaining optimal health, yet over 2 billion people worldwide still lack access to safe drinking water. In household-treated tap water, 25% of the samples still contained chloroform, a common THM, at concentrations that surpassed health-protective benchmarks.

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Moving beyond “vaguely interested”. Wanless 20 years on.

Sheffield DPH

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. Not into health. Of that there is no doubt. This was good.

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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

school news SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall Members of the SPH community share recommendations for the books, films, podcasts, and other content that has resonated with them as they study, research, and practice public health. For peers who share her interest in women’s health, she recommends the documentary podcast Bodies.

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Respiratory weather report for New York: Covid levels low as flu and RSV rise

HEALTHBEAT

Marisa Donnelly’s community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. I want to start this week’s YLE New York by acknowledging the uncertainties and anxieties around what the election results mean for public health in the United States, and by recommitting to our YLE mission. That won’t change.