
Dobbs and Doctors
Of the more than 6,000 residents training to be OB-GYNs in the U.S., 43.9% are at programs in abortion-restrictive states and therefore will not have access to abortion training.
...moreOf the more than 6,000 residents training to be OB-GYNs in the U.S., 43.9% are at programs in abortion-restrictive states and therefore will not have access to abortion training.
...moreFollowing the 2022 MPOX outbreak, Keletso Makofane, a social epidemiologist and postdoctoral fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, started the MPX NYC study to inform vaccine distribution in New York City.
...moreAt the APHA Annual Meeting & Expo in November, PHPod discussed putting public health into action with Michael Curry, CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health; and Christina Dantam and Rhea Manocha, members of the Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative at Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health.
...moreAt the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo in November, PHPod spoke with Emma Blackson and Diana Vasquez about their work putting public health into action.
...moreReyma McCoy Hyten has a two-decade career in the service and support of people with disabilities. She became the first Black woman to serve as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner for the Administration on Disabilities. Currently, she works privately, devoting her full attention and time to identifying and confronting the root causes of oppression, and how systems create marginalization.
...moreDallas Ducar is president and CEO of a New England non-profit health care organization that provides gender-affirming care.
...moreFocus group participants reported stigmatizing behavior about being tested for HIV, and among health care providers when seeking HIV testing.
...moreWhere veterans receive health care is more impactful than individual factors for lung cancer screening rates.
...moreMale sexual and reproductive services available at publicly funded California health clinics are limited, and vasectomies are not covered by many insurance plans.
...moreCalifornia residents living through more frequent wildfires had varied experiences due to environmental, social, and economic factors.
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