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Advancing Maternal Health Equity: Saving Mothers Locally and …

WEBEvery year, preventable maternal deaths demonstrate striking disparities within our global health systems. In 2017, 295,000 women died during pregnancy, …

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When the Metrics Don’t Add Up: Understanding the Hispanic …

WEBThe Hispanic Paradox challenges the world of public health to transform culture – a vital and innately human experience – into a clinical and consistent set of …

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How Federally Funded Health Care is Failing Native Americans

WEBThe glaring discrepancies seen between Americans and Native Americans portray a deeply inadequate system that degrades American Indians through its …

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Sovereignty in Motion: An Interview with Uahikea Maile

WEBUahikea Maile is a Kanaka Maoli scholar and activist from Maunawili, O‘ahu. Maile’s research focuses on Hawaiian sovereignty, Indigenous critical theory, settler …

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Doulas, Disparities, and Disentangling Maternal Mortality

WEBThe United States is home to the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world. In particular, African American women suffer the worst health …

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The New American Discourse: An Interview with Coleman Hughes

WEBColeman Hughes is a writer, podcaster, and opinion columnist who focuses on issues of race, public policy, and applied ethics. In June 2019, Hughes testified …

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Controlling the Narrative: Industry-Led Misinformation in the Great

WEBOver the summer, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter made headlines for exposing the misinformation campaigns that corporate health insurance providers …

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Healthcare for Sale: An Interview with Eileen Appelbaum

WEBDr. Eileen Appelbaum is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC; a fellow at the Rutgers University Center for Women and …

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A Dose of Diplomacy: How Cuba's vaccine generosity is a symbol …

WEBCuba’s strong healthcare, biotechnology, and medical education systems, coupled with its long-standing tradition of assisting countries in times of medical crisis, …

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Equality is Not a Zero Sum Game

WEBWhen New York City’s highly selective public schools released their admissions breakdown for the incoming freshman class in March, Stuyvesant High …

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Why Data Disaggregation Matters for Asian-Americans

WEBOn balance, data disaggregation may be a loss for Asian-American students with high hopes for college. But the rewards—progress towards health and educational …

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Harmful Harm Reduction

WEBDrug overdoses in the United States have grown enormously over the past five years. As a consequence, public health officials across the country have lobbied for …

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The Revolving Door: Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System

WEBThe 2008 recession brought even more cuts to state funding for mental health. Between 2009 and 2012, states reduced funding for mental health by $4.35 …

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Disaster-to-Consumer Advertising: Facing the Dangers of DTCA

WEBIn addition to bringing innovation-killing, costly medicalization, DTCA of prescription drugs can be harmful to consumers’ health. In 1999, Merck spent $160 …

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Examining the “Wellness”-to-Far-Right-Conspiracy Pipeline

WEBConspiratorial thinking has long been commonplace in liberal circles—particularly amongst wellness influencers who depend on pseudoscience to …

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The Politics of Welfare, from Bolsa Familia to the Bronx

WEBhe politics of welfare, here in the United States and abroad, are fraught with tension, and poverty reduction programs have long been a favorite straw-man of the …

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The Clinton Comeback

WEB“The Comeback Kid.” Such was President Bill Clinton’s self-branded title following the 1992 New Hampshire presidential primary. It was a fitting nickname, and an especially …

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The Bittersweet Truth: The Sugar Industry’s Manipulation of …

WEBAmerica’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England …

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Healthcare for Sale (Part 2): Prospect and Rhode Island – An …

WEBPeter Neronha is the Attorney General of the State of Rhode Island, a role he has held since 2019. He has previously served as the US Attorney for the District of …

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Postcolonial Plague: The Legacy of Apartheid South Africa in …

WEBWhen Nelson Mandela was elected in 1994, his post-apartheid government inherited a public health system riddled with mistrust and an increasing number of …

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A Wildcard Race in Staten Island

WEBThe New York Times branded him the “main contender for New York’s most-embarrassing-candidate-of-the-year award,” and The Daily Show made him the butt of …

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New York Archives

WEBUnited States; Every second, the equivalent of one garbage truck of clothing is dumped in a landfill or burned. Globally, the fashion industry is responsible for 10 …

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