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Busline News
1 week ago
Bicycling

Laketran To Participate In Upcoming National Bike To Work Day - Busline News

Encouraging biking as an alternative commuting method for environmental and health benefits. [ more ]
Miami Herald
2 weeks ago
Black Lives Matter

44 percent: Black doctors and healthcare, Little Haiti Book Festival and Brittney Griner

Black people face biases in healthcare system, including distrust and challenges in finding Black doctors. [ more ]
Truthout
3 weeks ago
Health

Public Health Finally Sees Incarceration as a Crisis. Abolition Is the Solution.

Investing in community health over carceral structures benefits public health. [ more ]
The Mercury News
1 month ago
Health

How the anti-vaccine movement pits parental rights against public health

Foster parents in Tennessee face obstacles in getting routine childhood vaccinations for children in their care
Tennessee's law requiring direct consent for routine childhood vaccinations from birth parents creates hurdles for caregivers and raises concerns about children's health and community well-being. [ more ]
BBC News
4 weeks ago
Running

Luton London Marathon entrants raising cash for cancer charity

Running club raises funds for charity and promotes community health and well-being. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
2 months ago
Public health

In Hospitals, Affordable Housing Gets the Long-Term Investor It Needs

Affordable housing complex connected to healthcare
Health systems investing in affordable housing [ more ]
Caribbean Life
2 months ago
Public health

Grenadian-born nurse practitioner to launch groundbreaking healthcare initiative in Brooklyn - Caribbean Life

Dr. Denise Romney launching healthcare initiative in Brooklyn
Eastern Circle, Inc. focused on health education and empowerment [ more ]
BKReader
3 months ago
Public health

Mother Cabrini Awards $172M in Grants to Advance Health Equity

The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation awarded 514 grants totaling $172 million to support nonprofits addressing community health needs and disparities.
The foundation refined its grantmaking strategy to focus on five core program areas: access to healthcare, basic needs, healthcare workforce, mental and behavioral health, and a general fund. [ more ]
Ggwash
2 months ago
Chicago

Breakfast links: Amtrak adds more DC to NYC trains

Tamara Saltman values well-functioning cities for happier and healthier communities.
She has degrees in environmental sciences and clinical social work. [ more ]
www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
Media industry

Control the narrative': how an Alabama utility wields influence by financing news

Residents of Uniontown, Alabama, a majority-Black community, have been complaining of the negative health impacts and environmental pollution caused by a landfill that takes in waste from coal-burning power plants.
The Birmingham Times, a historic African American newspaper, and the online-only Alabama News Center have failed to report on the issues related to coal ash in Uniontown, despite their financial ties to Alabama Power, the main subject of those stories. [ more ]
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