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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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Why the Trump administration’s university funding freezes is a health story 

Association of Health Care Journalists

This isnt just about elite privilege At first glance, the story might seem like its only about wealthy, well-known institutions. Many Americans see these institutions as insulated legacy bubbles, disconnected from everyday struggles. The hardest-hit institutions arent the ones with the biggest names.

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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.

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‘Dismantling one of the strongest tools we have’: Conservatives fret HHS cuts

Politico: eHealth

The Trump administrations decision to gut reproductive health research is alarming some conservatives, who worry it undercuts the presidents pro-family agenda. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Without it, we are flying blind, Michael said. Still, Brown is not convinced the programs are gone for good.