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The Network in 2025: Connecting Public Health, Community Needs, and Law and Policy Solutions

The Network for Public Health Law

In 2024, we worked with health agencies, service providers, as well as community-based organizations, to help them leverage laws and policies to ensure abortion rights and access to reproductive health services, and to advocate for such on a national level.

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How community programs are working to ease New York’s maternal health crisis

HEALTHBEAT

Access to health care key factor in maternal mortality Most births occur in hospitals, said Deborah Kaplan, a former assistant commissioner in the citys Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health. It is actually linked to structural racism, policy decisions, and access to healthcare.