Public Health

In recent years, there has been a growing focus on addressing health disparities and advancing health equity. This growth was spurred by incidents in 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which…

Art and medicine are a powerful combination in the pursuit of health equity. Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Michael C. Carlos Museum recently hosted events as part of Healing Arts Atlanta,a multi-day…

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States. Cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure are responsible for about 1 in 5 deaths, according…

With Republicans edging closer to gaining control of Congress, millions of Americans may be at risk of losing enhanced ACA subsidies that currently underwrite the cost of health insurance bought through…

The East LA Community Corporation (ELACC) is proud to announce a significant milestone in its mission to enhance sustainable affordable housing and improve public health in the Boyle Heights community…

Q. Why is addressing health care affordability such a pressing public health issue? A. Affordability is a widespread problem even as fewer Americans go without health insurance. The amount people…

The journey toward hope for health equity can, at times, feel endless. But it can also be exciting and inspiring. Scientific American asked some of the researchers, physicians, advocates, and…

NOAA is supporting the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Healthoffsite link at George Mason University, and Meharry School of Global Healthoffsite link, as it initiates the inaugural fellowship for Policy Experience in…

Health care costs in the United States have generally grown faster than inflation. The U.S. far exceeds other large and wealthy nations in per capita health spending, and health care represents a…

Discrimination against LGBTQ+ people throughout the U.S. and around the world contributes to LGBTQ+ health disparities. A new Harvard center wants to shift that paradigm. The LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence,…

Flojaune Cofer, the epidemiologist and leading candidate in Sacramento’s mayoral race, will always remember watching her father die from congestive heart failure in 1993. She was 11,  the same age…

Briana Stephenson, assistant professor of biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, develops biostatistical models to better understand population health disparities. In this Q&A, she shares what motivates her work…