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Network for Public Health Law Among Leading Public Health Organizations Joining Moyle Case as Amicus in 9th Circuit 

The Network for Public Health Law

The Network for Public Health Law (Network) announced today it has filed an amicus brief in the Moyle v. The Network joined the American Public Health Association, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Medical Women’s Association and over 100 public health and legal scholars in supporting the U.S.

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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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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

The Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs (AMCHP) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 AMCHP Annual Awards. This combination of skills enables her to provide holistic support, addressing not only the physical aspects of maternal health but also the emotional and mental well-being of her clients.

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With Medicaid in Washington’s crosshairs, North Carolinians rally against federal cuts

NC Health News

These proposals would take away peoples access to health care, destabilize rural hospitals and challenge the bipartisan progress we have made here in North Carolina, said Stein, who noted that more than 3 million North Carolina residents about a third of the states population depend on the government-funded health insurance program.

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Trump’s White House Return Poised To Tangle Health Care Safety Net

KFF Health News

Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care. Kennedy Jr.

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Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. and could include an erosion of the Affordable Care Act’s consumer protections, the imposition of work requirements in Medicaid and funding cuts to the safety net insurance, and challenges to federal agencies that safeguard public health.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Creating Chaos at HHS

KFF Health News

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” Of note on health, Trump’s orders instructed the removal of the U.S.