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Disaggregated Data Key to Tackling Low Maternal Vaccination Rates among Boston’s Black Pregnant Population

Maternal Health Task Force

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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

HEALTHBEAT

Monica Ponder, exhibit curator “The arts and opportunities like this are a great way to layer on and complement what we know quantitatively through surveillance systems and surveys,” added Ponder, who is trained as an epidemiologist and formerly worked at the U.S. Are we listening?” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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

Big Cities Health Coalition

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. An equity approach to federal health policy and funding decisions should be data driven and designed for targeted and universal impact.

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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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Managed Care History Part II- HMOs Give Way to Managed Care “Lite”

The Health Care Blog

Stay tuned for Part III of this Managed Care History where we focus on the transformation of managed care into a machine and algorithm driven surveillance system for physicians and hospitals. Jeff Goldsmith is a veteran health care futurist, President of Health Futures Inc and regular THCB Contributor.

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The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO

Your Local Epidemiologist

If China dominates global health governance, it could shape international health policies in ways that don’t align with U.S. keeps the system aligned with principles of transparency and accountability. Losing funding will be devastating to their health and biosecurity. Geopolitical implications: If the U.S.

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Trump’s data purge: What to know about federal infectious disease sites

Association of Health Care Journalists

Most of the pages on the National HIV Surveillance System also were inaccessible and require Internet Archive. The National Center for Health Statistics Data Query System appeared to be functional. If any pages go down within HIV.gov , these can also be accessed through the Internet Archive.