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The beginning and end of Monday Morning

Monday Morning

The new dean of the Gillings School, Nancy Messonnier, MD, is the right person to lead now. The pandemic changed the importance and urgency of public health, resources for public health, and how we work. We stood against racial, gender, sexual, and other inequities. These issues are public health.

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CDC Firings Undermine Public Health Work Far Beyond Washington

KFF Health News

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. That was far from its only purpose.

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

Association of Health Care Journalists

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.

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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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Biden Rule Cleared Hurdles to Lifesaving HIV Drug, but in Georgia Barriers Remain

KFF Health News

A new Trump administration adds an X factor to this and other federal health programs. 27, the White House announced a federal funding freeze, which sent shudders through health agencies and nonprofits. It applies to those on the federal marketplace plans and most large private health plans. 29, it had reversed the order.

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From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024

NC Health News

As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Now their board will be reconfigured.

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Reproductive health advocates brace for return of Title X challenges under Trump 

The Hill

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.