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Legal and Policy Assistance to Address Racial Health Equity

The Network for Public Health Law

Call for Applications for Legal and Policy Assistance to Promote Racial Health Equity Deadline: September 9, 2024 Join us for an informational webinar Thursday, August 29, 2024 | 12 – 1:00 p.m. The Network for Public Health Law supports health and health equity through law and policy.

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Podcast from Washington: Health Equity in Action

The NACCHO Podcast Series

Simbo Ige, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Health Equity and Capacity Building at the New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene about the continued need to push health equity in practice despite the wind down of federal funding for COVID programming. They also talk about the $2.25

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Public Health Master’s Degrees in Epidemiology: What Questions to Ask

BU School of Public Health Blog

I asked a couple of our faculty program directors what they want prospective students to know about our epidemiology master’s programs here at Boston University School of Public Health: “The Master’s of Science (MS) Program in Epidemiology is ideal for students with strong analytic interests who are passionate about health equity.

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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Global Health vs. Public Health There are many overlapping approaches and goals between global health and public health.

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The complicated role race and ethnicity play in research

Association of Health Care Journalists

Using race and ethnicity categories in research contributes to health inequities but leaving them out can also be problematic, according to a recent consensus report published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Racial categories in the U.S., Be transparent. Add context.

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The Kidney PATIENT Act Could Help Someone You Love

Black Health Matters

It is no secret that health inequities and barriers to quality care contribute to adverse outcomes within America’s Black community,” wrote Dr. Walter L. According to a 2020 study by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity , “Black Americans experience kidney failure at three times the rate of whites.” Fields, Jr.,

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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

HEALTHBEAT

Researchers have also found a link between voting and health, noting that a vicious cycle can develop where poor health can reduce voter turnout, which can result in electoral outcomes and policies that worsen health inequities. For Cohn, decades of work at patients’ bedsides made that link clear. “She