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WebCatalyzing efforts to collaboratively build and sustain conditions that allow for improved health outcomes and increased quality of life, particularly among vulnerable populations. …

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How a Community Health Center Became a Racial Justice …

WebTBF News Summer 2018. A small community health center in Jamaica Plain has been taking on one of the most painful and complex issues we face as a city—racial …

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Michael Curry: Interview transcript

WebDuring the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, you had campaigns, like the Birmingham campaign, you had the march on Washington, you had the campaign in …

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Stories of Far-Reaching Health Inequity

WebDr. Sandro Galea encouraged health and wellness professionals to share more than data—to tell the stories that reveal the most pervasive health inequities. The gap isn’t …

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Asian Community Fund announces $240,000 in grants to …

WebJuly 19, 2022. Boston – The Asian Community Fund (ACF) at the Boston Foundation today announced $240,000 in grants to 35 nonprofits, in the first round of grants made through …

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Health Starts at Home

Web5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Health Starts at Home was a multi-partner collaboration to improve child and family health for low-income families experiencing housing instability.

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COVID-19 and Massachusetts Communities

WebFigure 1. Despite this increase in diversity, Greater Boston continues to be highly segregated, driven, in part, by high housing prices, inadequate supply and exclusionary …

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Healthy People Healthy Economy coalition seeks to make

WebBoston – A new coalition has been created to respond to an epidemic of chronic preventable disease driven by soaring rates of obesity that threatens to …

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One year later municipal health insurance law a smashing success

WebFor more information, contact MAPC Deputy Director Joel Barrera at 617-451-2770 x2019 (work) or 508-740-1078 (cell) or at [email protected]. One year after …

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Equality and Equity

Web5 KEY FINDINGS • As a share of its total population, Massachu - setts has the second largest LGBT popu- lation of any state (5 percent). • Almost 16 percent and building …

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Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan

WebDr. Myechia Minter-Jordan. Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, serves as the president and CEO of the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. A physician and business executive, …

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Chapter 1: Economic Inequality and Cost Burden

WebOne example of this impact is in the widely cited 2015 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston study that showed median net worth for non-immigrant African-American households in …

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Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico makes nearly $1 million in …

WebTwenty-nine organizations in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico are receiving a total of $951,300 in grants from Massachusetts United for Puerto Rico/Massachusetts …

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Petrina Martin Cherry

WebPetrina Martin Cherry is the Vice President of Community Engagement and External Affairs at Boston Medical Center Health System, where she leads community program …

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Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center: Emphasizing Hope …

WebBut ordinary seems a long way off now. Hong Lok House is one of three facilities operated by the Greater Boston Chinese Golden Age Center (GBCGAC), which …

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