Your Local Epidemiologist

APRIL 1, 2025

Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately. Health divisions are gone, and programs are gutted HIV prevention? Environmental hazard response? Worker safety? Reproductive health? Disability health? National survey on drug use and mental health?

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The report named Latin America the deadliest region for environmental activists, accounting for 85 percent of the 196 land defenders murdered globally in 2023. Latin America’s environmental activists live amid a constant threat of violence that permeates their days and bodies and that, like polluted air, tears their insides apart.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

environmental safety Top Scientists Issue Urgent Warning on Fossil Fuels In a new review, Mary Willis, Jonathan Buonocore, and other environmental health experts present a bevy of evidence that details how fossil fuels are harmful to humans, wildlife, and the environment, and identifies ways to transition to clean, renewable energy.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

The Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act is considered crucial by its supporters, with climate change fueling an increase in wildfire frequency and firefighting deemed carcinogenic by the World Health Organization. What is clear is that, for legislation tying benefits to service-related health conditions, the devil is in the details.

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 12, 2025

Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnellys community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. A lot going on in the world of public health heres some news New Yorkers can use. Report sightings of dead birds to the Department of Environmental Conservation using this form.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, a Colombian environmental advocate, received her first death threat at 19. Yuvelis, you’re invited to join the public hearing on fracking.” Public safety was nonexistent. This firsthand account includes graphic references to violence and self-harm. It was such a downfall.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 8, 2025

I also spoke with dozens of formerly incarcerated people who explained that the physical and mental suffering they endured in prisons from both environmental and social factors left them in much worse shape than before their sentences.

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Black Health Matters

APRIL 7, 2025

There is danger in doom scrolling, and the threat to your mental health can get even worse when youre melanated. An information diet can preserve your mental health. I recommend setting boundaries with the news, said Rufin in a statement to Black Health Matters. Dr. Carey Yazeed agrees.

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Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For most of my life I took it as something that could not be changed; as well as something that was a public good. It relies on the use of emergency (9-1-1) and non-emergency (3-1-1) phone calls to try and reduce behaviors a group of people believe to be unfit, often in public spaces like parks and the outdoors.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Nearly 6,500 people were told to flee their homes in the middle of the night for their health and safety. The company also violated Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards related to its storage of ammonium nitrate. Did the fire affect health? history’,” the lawsuit states.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By providing access to fresh and nutritious foods while also fostering agribusiness, the garden offers concrete solutions to combat environmental injustices. As food deserts grew, the problem was ignored, silently affecting the health and well-being of countless Atlantans. The garden's impact extends beyond agriculture.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Babcock Ranch was designed not just to withstand hurricanes but also: …to offer residents multiple ways to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Back in 2017 he wrote about how it was important to “build health into the OS of our daily lives.” Decisions. . As the Building H website warns: .

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Mercola

DECEMBER 28, 2024

I was focusing on my kids health and my health and really had some time and energy to really go deep and find out what was really out there. He eventually learned about dirty electricity, and once he started addressing his exposure, he regained 10 pounds in a couple of months, along with his health.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Wallace said the coalition is not partisan, but is focused on “human health” because chemical accidents can affect all Americans. The Chemical Safety Board will issue a longer report, though that could take several years. 30 to Oct.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

“But that sense of safety is gone.” Without electricity, their health is at risk. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has given residents kits to test their well water. Fitzsimmons, Weaverville’s mayor, said he’s concerned about the impact of the storm on mental health. ” U.S.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. But that sense of safety is gone.” Without electricity, their health is at risk. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has given residents kits to test their well water. Well pumps don’t work without electricity.

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KFF Health News

MARCH 6, 2025

NPR, Spotlight PA, and KFF Health News agreed to use only the first names of people with hoarding disorder interviewed for this article because they fear personal and professional repercussions if their condition is made public. The biological and environmental factors that may drive hoarding are not well understood. As the U.S.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

However, a less visible but equally critical dimension also demands attention: the profound public health challenges impacting migrants and border communities. Instead, investigate how poverty, limited access to health care, and the very act of migrating contribute to the spread.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

APRIL 11, 2025

started touring nationwide to Make America Health Again (MAHA). While there are some great talking points, his advisors—like lobbyist Calley Means—continue to argue that “scientists in the health agencies represent an utter failure.” ” Americans should demand better health. This week, RFK Jr.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities. The Florida-based company argued in a filing that California’s law , signed by Gov.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

February 15, 2025 Jillian McKoy Megan Jones Twitter Facebook Research has always been a core part of the School of Public Healths mission to promote justice, human rights, and equity across local and global communities.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison contractors, filed a federal lawsuit last month against California officials to strike down a state law allowing local public health officials to inspect immigration detention facilities.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 2, 2025

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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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

March 8, 2025 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the virus has largely receded from public conversation and daily routinesand when it does arise, its often referenced in the past tense. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The Hill

APRIL 2, 2025

Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. Cutting 10,000 critical public health jobs puts every American at risk weakening our defenses against disease outbreaks, unsafe medications, and contaminated food, said Kelley. on Tuesday.

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