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

The Network for Public Health Law

A Message from Interim Co-Executive Directors Quang (“Q”) Dang and Ann Phi-Wendt “ While laws and policies can serve as barriers to health equity, they can also be used to promote health and advance equity and this is, has been, and will continue to be the focus of our work, whatever the political climate might bring.

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Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data

Association of Health Care Journalists

The entire website was briefly unavailable, and journalists are reporting that several datasets may be affected by the sweeping changes. Datasets related to racial disparities, LGBTQIA+ health and reproductive health were at risk, as were data on racial and ethnic health disparities, climate and environmental justice.

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

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What a U.S. exit from the World Health Organization means for global health

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. Bush administration. aid serves to destabilize world peace. Former President Joe Biden restored U.S.

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What a US Exit From the WHO Means for Global Health

KFF Health News

For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President Donald Trump issued three executive orders on his first day in office that may signal the end of that era, health policy experts said. With the U.S. Bush administration. “The U.S.