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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Through working with community-based organizations, institutions of higher learning, and healthcare plans within the municipality work she is dedicated to addressing the disparities faced by Black women in maternal health outcomes. Augustine for Health Sciences in Miami, Florida.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. Overall, our field works to protect the health of entire populations. Health is not just health care.

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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.

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Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here’s why there’s so little progress.

HEALTHBEAT

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.