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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. It is well documented that federally-funded, no-cost vaccines led to increased uptake during the height of the COVID pandemic.

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How Are States Spending Opioid Settlement Cash? We Built a Database of Answers

KFF Health News

KFF Health News, partnering with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Shatterproof , a national nonprofit focused on addiction, undertook a yearlong investigation to find out. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ). Learn more about KFF.

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12 States Promised To Open the Books on Their Opioid Settlement Funds. We Checked Up on Them.

KFF Health News

To discover how millions in opioid settlement funds are being spent in Idaho, you can visit the state attorney general’s website , which hosts 91 documents from state and local entities getting the money. Public Health District No. Cracking that code requires a separate document. “What does that mean? .”