Maternal Health Task Force

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Interested in a position in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child or adolescent health? Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe. Senior Specialist, Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health ; Save the Children; Washington D.C. — Is your organization hiring?

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BMJ Global Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Despite the communication, transportation and challenges such as own trauma, these volunteer leaders have taken the role of providing the Mental Health Psychosocial Support ( MHPSS ) to the community. A combination of the limited health resources, infrastructure and a stigma towards the mental health has left many without professional care.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 2, 2025

per 100,000 residents in 2021 more than double the rate in 2019, according to North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services data. Terica Carter, founder of Hajee House Harm Reduction, a Charlotte-based nonprofit that co-organized the event with the county’s public health office, has been working to change that statistic.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000. “Some groups in the United States are facing a health crisis,” Bollyky said, “and we need to respond to that because it’s worsening.”

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. As 2025 approaches, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene faces a slew of daunting public health challenges. Advancing health equity has been a throughline in Morse’s varied and accomplished career.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 22, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. Americans health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000. This means people may delay or skip treatments for chronic illnesses.

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Health Metrics and Evaluation Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Ethnicity and Health Substance Use Disorders 77

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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