Public Health

Black Americans are less likely to receive special care for Alzheimer’s, despite being twice as likely to develop dementia as white people.

Nutrient pollution, high temperatures, extreme weather, slow water currents and low wind speeds can drive harmful algae blooms out of control.

Over the last two decades, state regulators have allowed companies to release more than a billion pounds of excess pollution.

In a series of videos from JP Morgan Chase on how the bank’s impact investments are helping BIPOC small businesses grow, George Ashton, president of LISC Fund Management, and Sonja Dean, program officer at LISC Kalamazoo, describe their motivation for connecting entrepreneurs of color with the…

In this podcast episode, Katherine Baicker lays out an innovative blueprint for health care—not to tinker with the system, but to redesign it.

Resources and tools for funders to give more flexibly and further support their movement partners.

The Challenge: Health Inequity is Perpetuated by an Exclusionary Approach to Clinical R&DThe purpose of the pharmaceutical industry—namely pharma/biopharma……

Mass migration driven by climate change-related shocks and stresses is already occurring. We argue for a need for resilient health systems to ensure migration is adaptive, not detrimental, to health.

Poverty contributes to hundreds of thousands of American deaths a year, a recent American Medical Association study finds.

Nine U.S. cities have more than 1 million people at risk of having to endure an extra 8 degrees, thanks to the heat island effect.

Obese children outnumber underweight ones globally, and ‘social determinants’ in kids’ lived environments play a fundamental role. Obesity in kids can lead to a lifetime of poor health.

A decade of learning about power building from the California Endowment’s “Building Healthy Communities” initiative…