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The Network in 2025: Connecting Public Health, Community Needs, and Law and Policy Solutions

The Network for Public Health Law

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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How the plastic industry undermines democracy by blocking bans

Environmental Health News

Tiny plastic particles with a diameter less than 5 millimeters (nanoplastics are much smaller, ranging from 1 to 1,000 nanometers), these particles are harmful to tiny organisms in lakes like zooplankton, that mistake them for food. For the fourth year in a row, Kansas lawmakers tried to pass a law that would block local plastic bans.

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This week at the NC General Assembly: Reproductive health, nursing practice scope, paid family leave and more

NC Health News

Each chamber has its own deadlines for filing policy bills, which come pretty early in the legislative session. That means lawmakers need to get busy drafting and filing policy bills in February and March. There were dozens of health care bills filed and considered this week; NC Health News will run down a handful of them.

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Trump’s first executive orders on health could bring higher drug costs, more uninsured people

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. President Donald Trumps early actions on health care signal his likely intention to wipe away some Biden-era programs to lower drug costs and expand coverage under public insurance programs. health care system. Kennedy Jr.,