Environmental Health and Health Policy

Amid Wildfire Trauma, L.A. County Dispatches Mental Health Workers to Evacuees

KFF Health News

JANUARY 21, 2025

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UCSF hosting workshops on how to conduct systematic reviews

Environmental Health News

JANUARY 23, 2025

13 and 14 (beginner and advanced), on "How to Conduct Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses to Improve Environmental Health Policy and Decision-Making." UCSF is hosting two in-person free workshops, Feb.

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This Bill Aims To Help Firefighters With Cancer. Getting It Passed Is Just the Beginning.

KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

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Journalists Address Opioid Settlements, Undiagnosed ADHD, and a Georgia Chemical Fire

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Click here to hear Miller on “The Georgia Health Report” KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.

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Kennedy’s confirmation hearing skips over climate impacts despite health focus

Environmental Health News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services Why this matters: Kennedys minimal engagement with environmental health risks raises concerns about his approach to climate-related health crises. His views could impact public health initiatives addressing pollution and climate change. Read more: RFK Jr.s nomination

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Can a $10 Billion Climate Bond Address California’s Water Contamination Problem?

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

. “We have communities in California that are served drinking water that has been out of compliance with regulatory standards for potent toxins like arsenic for years,” said Lara Cushing, an associate professor in UCLA’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Learn more about KFF.

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2021

It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy.

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Frontline health clinics adapt to climate challenges with assistance from a free resource

NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

follow our coverage of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNC Charlotte chemist develops purification system that removes PFAS by Coastal Review Online January 4, 2025 December 23, 2024 What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

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Human, Bird, or Dog Waste? Scientists Parsing Poop To Aid DC’s Forgotten River

KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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NACCHO’s Podcast from Washington: How Richmond County (NC) Health Department Sustains Effective Retail Food Safety Programs

The NACCHO Podcast Series

DECEMBER 12, 2024

He is a former President of NACCHOs Board of Directors and has worked for over 35 years in varying capacities including as an environmental health specialist, health educator, and health officer. To get more public health policy updates and to subscribe to NACCHOs weekly newsletter, visit: www.naccho.org/advocacy.

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Doctors, Nurses Press Ahead as Wildfires Strain Los Angeles’ Health Care

KFF Health News

JANUARY 10, 2025

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Watch: Biggest Dangers and Health Concerns From Hurricane Milton

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

On CBS News, Céline Gounder, editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News, shared advice on how to prepare before a major weather event. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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Podcast from Washington: Federal Funding, NACCHO’s priorities for 2023, and LHD's MPX Response

The NACCHO Podcast Series

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Finally, the team reminds listeners that many public health policy decisions will hinge on the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections and urges everyone to vote. Adriane describes the implications of and discussion around the recent CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations on the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Patients Couldn’t Pay Their Utility Bills. One Hospital Turned to Solar Power for Help.

KFF Health News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

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California Dengue Cases Prompt Swift Response From Public Health Officials

KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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Médicos y enfermeras siguen haciendo su trabajo, mientras los incendios jaquean el sistema de salud de Los Ángeles

KFF Health News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Esta historia fue producida por Kaiser Health News , que publica California Healthline , un servicio editorialmente independiente de la California Health Care Foundation. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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Oficiales de salud en California responden rápido a los casos de dengue

KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. “Desafortunadamente, este mosquito va a quedarse aquí Espero que esto ponga en alerta a las personas y las impulse a ser parte de la solución” Esta historia fue producida por Kaiser Health News , que publica California Healthline , un servicio editorialmente independiente de la California Health Care Foundation.

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Funcionarios de California recomiendan que el estado proteja a los inquilinos del calor extremo

KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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¿Heces humana, de aves o de perros? Científicos analizan excrementos para ayudar al río olvidado de Washington D.C.

KFF Health News

MARCH 1, 2025

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Mountain Town Confronts an Unexpected Public Health Catastrophe

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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NACCHO’s Podcast from Washington: Updates on Presidential Executive Orders for Public Health and Key Resources to Support Safer Food Systems

The NACCHO Podcast Series

JANUARY 30, 2025

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Journalists Analyze Issues of the Day: RFK Jr., Bird Flu, L.A. Fires

KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

County Dispatches Mental Health Workers to Evacuees ” KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFFan independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.

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NIH-funded Research Drives Innovation at SPH

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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Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Drinking Water, Far From Known Sources

KFF Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In recent years, landowners expressed reservations about the county’s biosolids program, and in 2024 no farms participated in the practice, said Trey Strickland, manager of the environmental health services division. “It was probably a not in my backyard’ kind of thing,” Strickland said. Learn more about KFF.

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4 angles to consider when covering the far-reaching effects of the NIH pause

Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 28, 2025

National Institutes of Health, like many federal agencies, has experienced unprecedented restrictions on their operations in the new administrations first week, including a communications pause that abruptly halted meetings and workshops , a hiring freeze, and a moratorium on travel.

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Los Angeles County Has Cut Homelessness, but Wildfires Threaten To Erase That Gain

KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. All signs point to systems rooted in the nation’s painful racist history, which even today affects all facets of American life.

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Does Fluoride Cause Cancer, IQ Loss, and More? Fact-Checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Claims

KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. “Aside from fluoride’s impacts on neurodevelopment, I think that there is more that we don’t know about health effects of low-level fluoride exposure than what we do know, particularly for adult health outcomes,” Malin said. Learn more about KFF.

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Journalists Address HHS Under Trump, Rural PFAS Contamination, and Bird Flu

KFF Health News

JANUARY 11, 2025

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Incineradores de basura dañan de manera desproporcionada a hispanos

KFF Health News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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Biden admin’s plan to replace lead pipes at risk

Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This landmark policy comes just months after the EPA finalized the nations first-ever PFAS drinking water standard. In October, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a crucial final rule aimed at eliminating lead pipes from drinking water systems across the United States.

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Trash Incinerators Disproportionately Harm Black and Hispanic People

KFF Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

She cited an environmental consultant’s assessment that the health risk is “below the risk posed by simply walking down the street and breathing air that includes car exhaust.” ” But some environmental health experts say it’s not only a facility’s day-to-day operations that are cause for concern.

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How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism.

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What To Know About Trump’s Executive Orders on US Health Care

KFF Health News

JANUARY 22, 2025

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Public Health Risks of Urban Wildfire Smoke Prompt Push for More Monitoring

KFF Health News

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. ” Scientists and public health officials have long tracked the pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other environmental health hazards and shared them with the public through the local Air Quality Index.

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Cómo una regla federal propuesta sobre el calor podría haber salvado la vida de trabajadores agrícolas

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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Public health risks of urban wildfire smoke prompt push for more monitoring

HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. Scientists and public health officials have long tracked the pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other environmental health hazards and shared them with the public through the local Air Quality Index.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2025

Well be closely following the incoming administrations movements on Medicaid and related health policies in the weeks and months ahead. The National Conference of State Legislatures also predicted addressing the health care workforce shortage as another top issue for state legislatures next year. Take a hike.

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2024 election: Two radically different visions for environment, health

Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

While the campaigns largely focused on immigration, the economy, reproductive rights and democratic principles, the two major party candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, represent two wildly different approaches to environmental regulation and health policies. environmental health landscape.

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How Kennedy’s cuts to HHS could curb 'MAHA' agenda

The Hill

APRIL 7, 2025

The administration also fired the entire staff of CDCs Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice, including members who fought childhood lead exposure and those who worked on cancer clusters. That division helped discover lead contamination in applesauce pouches that were popular with kids.

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Donald Trump wins US presidency. What that could mean for the environment.

Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

presidential election on Wednesday and while his campaign largely focused on isolationism, immigration, crime and inflation, his previous record in the White House suggests ramped up domestic fossil fuels production, weakening of laws meant to curb pollution and an overhaul of environmental and health agencies.