This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The predominantly black and low-income communities living near the back-to-back petrochemical refineries of Louisiana’s “cancer alley” have long suffered compromised immune systems and high rates of disease. Now, the state’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part of the White House’s recently announced American Jobs Plan includes $18 billion to upgrade and modernize U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics. A 2015 analysis suggests…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While COVID-19 still spreads across the world, the need to maintain the fight against polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases goes on. Thousands of front-line polio workers continue to fight polio…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Bidtah Becker, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, was growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, clean water flowed from the taps at her house. She and her siblings often…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite decades of government and community efforts to improve health equity in Latinx communities, vast disparities remain. For example, Latinxs are the group least likely to be insured or to report…
RAND senior policy researcher Ben Preston presents several climate change successes from recent years, including reduced costs to deploy renewable energy, commitment at international, national, state, and local levels to reduce emissions,…
Transportation is an integral part of the solution to stabilize the health and wellbeing of older adults, particularly in rural communities. This webinar will feature the successes of rural communities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The buildings we live in, the parks we play in, the streets we walk on, and the pipes that run under our homes are all components of the built environment that influence…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Betty’s home stands on the edge of a striking red cliff. Her family built the home from materials in their environment generations ago and passed it along from mothers to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan includes a proposal to upgrade the U.S. drinking water distribution system by removing and replacing dangerous lead pipes. As a geochemist and environmental health researcher…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the U.S., only about 31.6 percent of eligible people were fully vaccinated as of Monday morning, and that number varies a lot from place to place — 23.8 percent of Alabamians…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Experts at the Migration Policy Institute analyze how the cultural and linguistic competencies of immigrant and refugee health professionals could be better utilized to provide care to a…