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LISTEN: Pradnya Garud on the role of unions in climate justice

Environmental Health News

The Agents of Change in Environmental Justice podcast is a biweekly podcast featuring the stories and big ideas from past and present fellows, as well as others in the field. It was a pretty, actually confusing and challenging time to be a young immigrant woman navigating the US academic system and just in general, day to day life.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

The area has stark health care provider shortages and high rates of chronic disease, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. And that’s not an accident, according to academic researchers, doctors, politicians, community leaders, and dozens of other people KFF Health News interviewed.