Gloria Respress-Churchwell
PHP Fellow Jori Fortson profiles Gloria Respress-Churchwell to discuss her book, Follow Chester!, microaggression, and the art of public health writing.
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Medicaid Meals
States with medicaid expansion show a drop in food insecurity among low-income populations as compared to non-expansion states.
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Nusrat Choudhury
PHP Fellow Jori Fortson profiles Nusrat Choudhury to discuss her work as a lawyer and advocate exposing and challenging modern-day debtors’ prisons.
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Tiny Toxicity
Researchers are looking for evidence on whether ingestion of microplastics have an impact on human health and, if so, by how much.
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Rafael Campo
PHP Fellow Jori Fortson profiles Dr. Rafael Campo, author of The Desire to Heal, about his work as a physician and the healing power of poetry.
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Depths of Despair
Evidence points to “deaths of despair” across all racial and ethnic groups. Efforts to mitigate cultural despair should target populations of young adults.
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Measles Madness
Health authorities declared that measles had been eliminated from the nation in 2000, yet the virus has reemerged at alarmingly high rates in 2019.
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Millions Say #MeToo
Sexual violence particularly inflicts suffering and pain on females, low-income individuals, and people who identify as LGBT.
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Education to Reduce Teen Baby Bumps
Understanding the factors that influence teen reproductive health is essential as evidence grows in the “safe sex” vs “abstinence only” education debate.
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Pollute Less, Suffer More
Communities of color experience pollution inequities as Whites experience less exposure than Black and Hispanic people to the air pollution they create.
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