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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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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the island of Ireland for 25 years. Shifting the focus of public policy’. And all of these, in turn, contribute to better health, creating a virtuous cycle.

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Fentanyl Crisis Grips New York with Deadly Force

Mercola

1 This statistic highlights the pervasive impact of IMFs on public health. Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Remain a Significant Public Health Crisis Recent data reveals alarming trends: from January 2021 to June 2024, overdose deaths with IMFs detected remained consistently high at approximately 70% to 80% nationwide, according to the U.S.

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Hospital Systems: A Framework for Maximizing Social Benefit

The Health Care Blog

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. As a consequence, the Biden administration has targeted the health care industry for enhanced and more vigilant anti-trust enforcement. These systems demonstrated that they are capable of producing, rapidly and on demand, demonstrable social benefit.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room

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?” As a result, public health is closely tied to things like the environment, nutrition, and safety.

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What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

NC Health News

Its been little over a year since the measure took effect, and we now have a clearer picture of what it accomplished: more than 600,000 low-income North Carolinians received health insurance through expansion, surpassing in just 12 months a milestone the state estimated would take at least two years to reach.

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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.,