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Public health data modernization: moving from challenges to solutions

Big Cities Health Coalition

In addition, our efforts to address health equity depend on having timely, accurate, and granular public health data, down to the local neighborhood level. Modernizing data systems will allow resources to get where they are most needed, ensuring everyone has their best chance at health.

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Laying the Groundwork: Leveraging Local Health Networks to Modernize Public Health Data in Chicago

National Network of Public Health Institutes

With localized data and health equity improvement as a central goal, CDPH plans to increase community engagement and implement informed programs such as community health worker-led hypertension outreach. There are widespread initiatives to move the work of data modernization forward in public health.

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Pictures of health: Photos help East Point show community’s challenges, but also joys

HEALTHBEAT

Placed alongside the photos are quotes from residents about the challenges they face paying bills and raising children, how housing affects health, and how the arts promote mental health in people of all ages. The goal is to promote policies that improve health equity in a city inextricably shaped by past racial inequalities.

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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To bolster these efforts, BCHC urges the federal government to provide sustained funding, flexible resource allocation, and direct support to local health agencies, ensuring preparedness for future public health emergencies. Funding must be flexible as health threats continually change.

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Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data

Association of Health Care Journalists

Some data, such as the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and the CDCs Social Vulnerability Index were unavailable on Friday afternoon. 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.

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5 story ideas on migrant health crises facing U.S.-Mexico border

Association of Health Care Journalists

The authors emphasize the urgent need for a One Health approach a collaborative, multidisciplinary strategy recognizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health to address these challenges effectively.