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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

As part of this grant, Haita oversees the Rhode Island Maternal Health Taskforce and the development and implementation of the Rhode Island Maternal Health Strategic Plan alongside Taskforce members and other RIDOH teams. Together, KBJS is transforming the future of reproductive health in Kansas.

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Stylists, barbers key to program focused on improving Black health 

NC Health News

Today, many hair stylists also have health education degrees, LaDrew said. We take womens interest in beauty and kind of slip in the health information to them, because when you have someone doing your hair, it’s such a personal relationship, LaDrew said. Before the 20th century, many barbers were also doctors.

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Slashed Federal Funding Cancels Vaccine Clinics Amid Measles Surge

KFF Health News

The programs are held at community organizations, during fairs and other events, or inside buses turned into mobile health clinics. Vaccination events are also a chance to offer health education, connect people with other resources they may need, and build trust between communities and public health systems, she said.

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Trump administration health policies may target ultra-processed foods

HEALTHBEAT

They have been absolutely instrumental and highly, highly successful at delaying any regulatory effectiveness in America, said Laura Schmidt, a health policy professor at the University of California-San Francisco. Thats up from almost $10 million in 1998. Booker cosigned the legislation along with Sens. Peter Welch, D-Vt.,