New Jobs and Internships in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
Maternal Health Task Force
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Every month, the Maternal Health Task Force rounds up job and internship postings from around the globe.
Journalists Dish on New Weight Loss Drugs, RFK Jr.’s Fluoride Claims, and Reproductive Health
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 30, 2024
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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
OCTOBER 24, 2024
“Idaho’s law criminalizes nearly all abortion care, which can be crucial for stabilizing pregnant individuals facing emergencies,” said Joanna Suder , Senior Attorney for Reproductive Health headquartered in the Western Region at the Network.
Fewer NC children dying at the hands of a parent or caregiver, new report shows
NC Health News
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
More Coverage of Children’s Health What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year. They’re not a problem group, he said. They just have a lot of risk factors. The wonderful news is not happenstance, Vitaglione said about the reports findings.
Could doulas improve maternal health outcomes in the U.S.?
Association of Health Care Journalists
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The combination of policy changes, new research, and the evolving role of doulas in both in-person and virtual settings presents an opportunity for health journalists to explore how doulas can help to address the maternal health crisis and improve outcomes for women across diverse populations.
Dr. Anete Muxlhanga’s Mission: Local, Data-Driven Solutions for Maternal Health in Mozambique
Maternal Health Task Force
JANUARY 22, 2025
By: Audrey Benson , a researcher and writer with experience in quantitative and participatory projects at the intersection of health, gender, and migration. Maternal and Child Health in Mozambique: A Physicians Perspective Dr. Anete Muxlhanga, a Mozambican physician and researcher, provides firsthand insights into these challenges.
The Network in 2025: Connecting Public Health, Community Needs, and Law and Policy Solutions
The Network for Public Health Law
JANUARY 8, 2025
In 2024, we worked with health agencies, service providers, as well as community-based organizations, to help them leverage laws and policies to ensure abortion rights and access to reproductive health services, and to advocate for such on a national level.
Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
MARCH 14, 2025
Region IX Nevada, California, Arizona, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands (American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Island, and Palau) Renzymeir Baloran, MPH Renzymeir (Renzy) Baloran is the Pediatric Mental Health Care Access Coordinator for the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH).
New report: Shortfall of big city health detectives poses serious threat to public health response
Big Cities Health Coalition
DECEMBER 9, 2024
A lot of decisions about health policy and practice get made based on epidemiological data. Im proud of our department for its work to contain the outbreak so quickly. Why do you think your work is important to your community (even if they don’t know it)?
This week at the NC General Assembly: Reproductive health, nursing practice scope, paid family leave and more
NC Health News
MARCH 28, 2025
This years crossover date, May 8, marks the point by which any bill thats purely policy and lacking any state appropriations needs to be approved by at least one chamber, or it dies until the beginning of the next biennium. There were dozens of health care bills filed and considered this week; NC Health News will run down a handful of them.
Download time: What journalists should know about disappearing federal health data
Association of Health Care Journalists
JANUARY 31, 2025
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. Websites such as the NIHs Office of Research on Womens Health were also unavailable Friday.
6 story ideas as the Supreme Court mulls transgender health care
Association of Health Care Journalists
DECEMBER 10, 2024
Depending on the ruling, it could pave the way for more restrictive health care policies affecting not only transgender care but also other areas like reproductive health. Story ideas The changing landscape of civil rights.
With Medicaid in Washington’s crosshairs, North Carolinians rally against federal cuts
NC Health News
MARCH 31, 2025
Republican members of the states delegation have been more opaque.Press secretaries for Hudson and several other Republican representatives contacted by NC Health News did not respond to messages asking whether they would support or oppose cuts to federal funding. But advocates havent been met with complete silence from Republicans.
NC House lawmakers propose ‘long overdue’ reforms to child welfare system
NC Health News
APRIL 10, 2025
follow our coverage of state health policy Did prison have to be a death sentence for man with mental illness? People treat us like glorified babysitters: Take care of them, treat them like your own but you don’t have a right to say what they need, she said.
CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington
KFF Health News
MARCH 5, 2025
In Minneapolis, a CDC public health adviser had been providing sexual and reproductive health education in two high schools, as well as doing citywide work on STI testing, said Barbara Kyle, the city’s school-based clinic manager. Please message KFF Health News on Signal at (415) 519-8778 or get in touch here.
Fears of federal cuts loom over New York state health budget process
HEALTHBEAT
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
About $7 billion of the state Health Departments $113.6 billion proposed budget is earmarked for other health programs, including public health work. Hochul has proposed $1 billion in new funding for safety-net hospitals, as well as investments in reproductive health and maternal health.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Courts Try To Curb Health Cuts
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
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?” Bush administration about the impact of cutting funding to research universities.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Trump 2.0
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
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?” now a key voice in the Trump transition team — is telegraphing big plans for health policy.
Journalists Demystify Bird Flu, Medicaid Work Requirements, and Reproductive Health Research
KFF Health News
MARCH 22, 2025
” KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed reproductive health on Connecticut Public’s “Where We Live” on March 17. Click here to hear Whitehead on “River to River” Read Whitehead and Renuka Rayasam’s “ Republicans Are Eyeing Cuts to Medicaid.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Medicaid in the Crosshairs, Maybe
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
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?” Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).
Biden Rule Cleared Hurdles to Lifesaving HIV Drug, but in Georgia Barriers Remain
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
.” Others agree that public health messaging around PrEP services should target more diverse audiences. Dázon Dixon Diallo is the founder of SisterLove , an HIV, sexual, and reproductive health organization focused on Black women in the Southeast. “There’s no story in there for me, right?
Trump expected to quickly revive 'global gag rule' on abortion
The Hill
JANUARY 19, 2025
government global family planning funding, according to health policy nonprofit KFF. Congress also has the ability to institute the policy through legislation but has only done so once before. Trump will likely reinstate the policy just as quickly after he is sworn into office again on Jan. billion in U.S.
About 1 in 3 US women are accessing family planning services: CDC
The Hill
DECEMBER 11, 2024
The new data comes as reproductive health advocates and experts prepare for possible cuts to the federal family planning program commonly referred to as Title X under the forthcoming Trump administration. The Biden administration reversed the regulation in 2021, but health experts fear it could come back. percent and 15.7
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': End-of-Year Chaos on Capitol Hill
KFF Health News
DECEMBER 19, 2024
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?” Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).
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The Growing Inequality in Life Expectancy Among Americans
KFF Health News
JANUARY 22, 2025
But without policy changes that boost low wages, decrease medical costs, put safe housing and strong public education within reach, and ensure access to reproductive health care including abortion, Harris said, the country’s overall life expectancy may grow worse. Learn more about KFF.
The “Comstockery” of Justice Clarence Thomas
The Health Care Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
Pornography, contraceptive equipment, reproductive health literature, and books deemed risque’ or suggestive all fell into his crosshairs.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': LIVE From KFF: Health Care and the 2024 Election
KFF Health News
OCTOBER 17, 2024
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?” The 2024 campaign — particularly the one for president — has been notably vague on policy.
Trump administration's foreign aid cuts threaten to roll back global maternal mortality progress
The Hill
APRIL 13, 2025
USAID managed almost all of the child health and family planning work the United States government executes abroad, according to Jennifer Kates, senior vice president and director of global health and HIV policy at health policy nonprofit KFF. humanitarian responders, all of which ultimately put pressure on U.S.
Reproductive health advocates brace for return of Title X challenges under Trump
The Hill
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Reproductive health advocates expect President-elect Trump to reinstate a rule that weakened the country's sole federally funded family planning program during his first term once he returns to office next year. million low-income or uninsured Americans, according to health policy research nonprofit KFF.
From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024
NC Health News
DECEMBER 31, 2024
In one case highlighted in a September article , a cancer patient was charged hundreds of dollars more after Novant Health acquired her oncology practice, even though she had been seeing the same doctor in the same building at a lower cost before the acquisition. North Carolinians who came to D.C. in support of abortion access.
What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.
NC Health News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Well be closely following the incoming administrations movements on Medicaid and related health policies in the weeks and months ahead. The National Conference of State Legislatures also predicted addressing the health care workforce shortage as another top issue for state legislatures next year.
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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Ax Falls at HHS
KFF Health News
MARCH 27, 2025
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?” Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Chaos Continues in Federal Health System
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
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?” Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).
Trump’s White House Return Poised To Tangle Health Care Safety Net
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
. “Medicaid will be a big target in a Trump administration,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News. Less clear is the potential future of reproductive health rights. Learn more about KFF.
10 Ways an ACA Repeal Could Impact Our Health
Black Health Matters
OCTOBER 30, 2024
“As president, Trump’s budget proposals included plans to convert the ACA into block grants to states, cap federal funding for Medicaid, and allow states to relax the ACA’s rules protecting people with pre-existing conditions,” says Samantha Artiga, vice president and director of the Racial Equity and Health Policy Program at KFF. “If
Trump’s White House return poised to tangle health care safety net
HEALTHBEAT
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
“Medicaid will be a big target in a Trump administration,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a health information nonprofit that includes KFF Health News. Less clear is the potential future of reproductive health rights.
What’s at Stake: A Pivotal Election for Six Big Health Issues
KFF Health News
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Harris, on the other hand , has staked out positions primarily preserving and protecting existing health care access — on abortion, transgender health care, insurance coverage, and more. Here are some of the most consequential changes in health policies that could hinge on who wins the White House. Learn more about KFF.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Creating Chaos at HHS
KFF Health News
JANUARY 23, 2025
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?” Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).
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Trump’s first executive orders on health could bring higher drug costs, more uninsured people
HEALTHBEAT
JANUARY 23, 2025
Everyone is looking for signals on what Trump might do on a host of health issues. On the early EOs, Trump doesnt show his cards, said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, the health policy research, polling, and news organization that includes KFF Health News.
What a U.S. exit from the World Health Organization means for global health
HEALTHBEAT
JANUARY 27, 2025
For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President Donald Trump issued three executive orders on his first day in office that may signal the end of that era, health policy experts said.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': The Dismantling of HHS
KFF Health News
APRIL 10, 2025
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?” Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Creating Chaos at HHS
KFF Health News
JANUARY 23, 2025
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?” Many of those have to do with health policy, and we’ll get to them in a moment.
What a US Exit From the WHO Means for Global Health
KFF Health News
JANUARY 24, 2025
For decades, the United States has held considerable power in determining the direction of global health policies and programs. President Donald Trump issued three executive orders on his first day in office that may signal the end of that era, health policy experts said. Learn more about KFF.
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