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How Mobile Health Clinics Advance Health Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Missvain on Wikimedia Commons Equitable access to healthcare is a key element to lessening the racial health disparities that have existed throughout the history of the United States. Mobile health clinic programs have also been effective in reducing emergency department visits.

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Leaders Say Public Health Ethics Is Necessary for Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

How does the field of public health—given its role in making decisions that impact entire populations—define ethics? How can it be used to advance health equity and social justice? Ethical values are critical to all that we do,” says Dr. Nancy Krieger , a professor of social epidemiology at Harvard T.H.

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How Global Talent Enriches a Global Health Organization

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Vital Strategies, the New York-based public health nonprofit I’ve led for the past two decades, employs nearly 400 people in 16 countries. At Vital Strategies, we consider our global diversity to be our strength, and a powerful asset in our mission to reimagine public health for everyone. Did you enjoy this story?

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The Push for Payback: Robert Wood Johnson and 80 Other Foundations Make a Case for Reparations

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

A philanthropic movement to redefine reparations aims to advance policy changes in public health, education, criminal justice, and business development. Haygood, president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, speaks at the launch event of the New Jersey Reparations Council in June 2023.

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Why Ending the Public Health Emergency Is Not Progress—And What Funders Can Do About It

NonProfit Quarterly

The federal government officially ended the public health emergency on May 11, 2023. Even before the PHE status was lifted, some states had already entered the Medicaid “unwinding period,” ending the pandemic-specific policies that allowed continuous coverage for those enrolled.

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The Long Road to Health Equity

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: SHREY DEEPRANJAN Today, healthcare institutions acknowledge forces like structural racism as drivers of negative health outcomes—but effectively addressing racism inside of those institutions still has a long way to go. What policies are further perpetuating inequities?

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Life expectancy can differ up to 30 years in the US between different zip codes in the same state, indicating the significance of socioeconomic, environmental, and social factors in driving health outcomes.

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