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Legal and Policy Assistance to Address Racial Health Equity

The Network for Public Health Law

The Network has a broad range of knowledge in the use of law and policy to promote health equity and improve public health in the areas of: Housing; Food Security; Mental health and Suicide Prevention; Harm reduction; Communicable Diseases; Climate Change; Emergency Preparedness; Vaccines; Data Sharing and Privacy; Public Health Authority and Operations; (..)

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. However, less is known about the heterogeneity in these causes of death. Are people in some countries dying from an increasingly varied set of causes?

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Gender-Affirming Care Supports Transgender People

Black Health Matters

They aid individuals facing a few health issues and barriers to treatment outside of HIV. Their work is pivotal because, according to a 2016 article in Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Obesity, “Transgender persons suffer significant health disparities in multiple arenas.

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

Big Cities Health Coalition

To promote effective leadership, BCHC recommends appointing experts with local or state health experience to federal positions. A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide.