Black Health Matters

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Health Education Advocacy and Learning (HEAL) is a non-profit collaborative created to provide every community with access to resources that will help them thrive. The post Advocating For Chronic Kidney Disease Policy Change appeared first on Black Health Matters.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 10, 2024

We want to create a world where people treat domestic violence as a health equity issue and a multigenerational cycle that can be prevented. The playbook also advises journalists to examine which sexualities, races, ethnicities, languages, abilities, professions, income levels, religions and other identities are or are not represented.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Laura Diaz on how social and environmental stress impact childrens health And yet, most of our work at Partners for Equity and Research (the name of our environmental justice hub at Sonoma State University) has been done free of charge. What is the solution?

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BU School of Public Health Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Maria Glymour Maria Glymour , chair and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health; Jacqueline Torres, associate professor of epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco; and Paola Gilsanz, research scientist II at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, have received a $28.8

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

students Meet Emily Goldmann, Director of SPH’s Online MPH Program Goldmann, also a clinical associate professor of epidemiology, discusses what led her to SPH and why the innovative format of the Online MPH is changing the virtual learning experience for the public health workforce.

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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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Fund for Public Health NYC

JULY 26, 2023

Maternal health inequities in New York City are stark, with Black women and birthing persons being 9x more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than their white counterparts. The City of New York’s commitment to improving maternal health outcomes is not new; the Department of Health has been dedicated to this cause for decades.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Reporting on alcohol use and alcohol use disorder: Data, disparities, and responsible journalism Moderator: Naseem Miller , senior health editor, The Journalist’s Resource Jordan Gass-Pooré , podcast producer and investigative journalist Nasim Maleki, Ph.D. Maleki also noted the racial, ethnic and regional disparities of the harms of alcohol.

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Black Health Matters

JULY 12, 2024

Mental health is a critical matter in our community, yet it is often hidden and minimized behind the curtains of stigma, misconceptions, and embarrassment. National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, observed every July, raises awareness and advocates for mental health equity.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. And she has persuaded Grady Health System, the largest public hospital–based system in the Southeast, to revise its prostate cancer screening guidelines in an effort to boost health equity by identifying the disease early among Black men.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

JANUARY 28, 2025

The NYC Health Department has released a new strategy to address the root causes of chronic diseases, which are the leading causes of death for New Yorkers. This comprehensive report, part of the HealthyNYC initiative, outlines a plan to reduce health inequities and promote healthier lives for all.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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Better Health For All

OCTOBER 10, 2024

When the MBRACE-UK report for 2019-2021 was published showing a four-fold increase in risk of mortality for pregnant people from Black ethnic groups [1] , the medical establishment reacted promptly and with horror to investigate and tackle this statistic. It’s not just birthing parents who are at risk either.

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Black Health Matters

JULY 8, 2024

Although public banking doesn’t reserve your donation for your family alone, it can contribute to health equity in our community, ensuring that we have the same access to life-saving treatments as patients from other ethnic backgrounds. On the other hand, private cord blood banking is a personal investment.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

OCTOBER 3, 2024

million cooperative agreement from the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau (HRSA MCHB) to build the capacity of public health leaders at the state and local level to effectively use policy approaches related to housing and food security for MCH populations. AMCHP is Awarded $1.2M

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last week arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1 , pt2 ). A combination of team care, language proficiency, and significantly lower direct health care costs for each member has encouraged that pattern of enrollment as well.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

JANUARY 16, 2025

Introducing the Fall 2024 MCH Innovations Database Practices Every Spring and Fall, the Innovation Hub hosts its bi-annual review of new, innovative, and impactful policies and practices in the maternal and child health (MCH) space. By providing stable housing, the program works to increase positive health outcomes for mothers and babies.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Call for New AMCHP Association Committee Members is Open Through November 8 Are you interested in effecting meaningful change nationally and have your voice heard on maternal and child health (MCH) matters? MacQueen Lecture Award : For innovation in the field of maternal and child health.

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The Network for Public Health Law

JANUARY 8, 2025

A Message from Interim Co-Executive Directors Quang (“Q”) Dang and Ann Phi-Wendt “ While laws and policies can serve as barriers to health equity, they can also be used to promote health and advance equity and this is, has been, and will continue to be the focus of our work, whatever the political climate might bring.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 10, 2025

Several prescription medications bear FDA-approved, race-specific labels that suggest certain racial or ethnic groups should receive lower doses or may be at greater risk of side effects. Prevalent implicit bias in health care can create racial differences in rates of prescriptions to treat pain or substance use disorders.

Ethnicity and Health 66

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

spotted a call for research papers on health disparities. She and her colleagues set out to train a machine learning algorithm using a diverse set of medical images to show that using more inclusive data could lead to more precise results for everyone and thus, increased health equity.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 11, 2025

For journalists covering rural health disparities, the Medicaid cliff and the promises (and pitfalls) of telehealth, these findings demand a closer look at who’s really benefiting from the telehealth boom, and why.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 31, 2025

Datasets related to racial disparities, LGBTQIA+ health and reproductive health were at risk, as were data on racial and ethnic health disparities, climate and environmental justice. Websites such as the NIHs Office of Research on Womens Health were also unavailable Friday.

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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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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But, in a recent editorial that appeared in JAMA Pediatrics , a pair of medical experts called the COVID-19 pandemic-era child tax credit expansion in 2021, “one of the most successful antipoverty initiatives,” that verifiably improved health for children and their caregivers. The story’s not over once a decision is made.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 29, 2025

the presidents choice to take charge of the countrys health and well-being, many in North Carolinas health care and public health communities will be paying close attention to what the nominee and the senators grilling him say. By Rose Hoban At 10 a.m.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. The day after Donald Trump secured a second presidential term, New York officials pledged to protect residents’ reproductive rights and access to health care — and experts braced for a likely assault on local public health systems. “No

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