The Search for Good Data to Support Health Equity in Public Health
Six DELPH scholars give their insights to learn more about how the data modernization initiative and DEI intersect with public health.
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From the Chief Medical Officer: What Needs to Change to Achieve Better Health Equity Metrics
We can prepare for the future of health equity and data by ensuring the equitable collection of data and building systems that are flexible enough to account for forward progress.
The Seven Biggest Public Health Policy Issues on the Hill in 2020
As a truly historic year comes to an end, many public health policy issues received a considerable amount of attention in 2020. Subjects such as the pandemic that will live on in infamy, racial ...
Promoting Mental Well-Being in a Post-Pandemic World
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Although suicide was a critical public health issue in the U.S. long before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Americans are now reporting increased mental health challenges like depression, anxiety, and ...
STD Awareness Month Highlights a Rise in Rates for Sixth Straight Year
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Though COVID-19 has dominated public health over the past year, other communicable diseases are still occurring at troubling rates. The CDC recently released data in their Sexually Transmitted ...
Proposed Vaccination Laws to Watch in the New Year
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Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, as well as some of the most powerful and cost-effective tools to prevent disease, disparities, disability, and death ...
D.C. Director of Health's New Plan to Champion Maternal and Child Health
Interview with LaQuandra Nesbitt, MD, MPH, director of DC Health, about perinatal health, collaboration with community health centers, and opportunities to address disparities in maternal and child ...
ASTHO Policy Watch 2022: Health Equity and Rural Health
ASTHO has identified health equity and rural health as issues that policymakers across the country will consider in 2022.