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The Biden Administration’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Equity – in Health and Beyond

Health Populi

the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed disparities in housing, food, and job security, and the role that one’s ZIP code and social determinants play in health outcomes. But these have disproportionately hit non-white people, who are nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so.

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Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

Bill of Health

Participation, accountability, transparency, and non-discrimination, essential in the Court’s reasoning, are also reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies. On the contrary, human rights-compliant responses lead to better public health outcomes.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

Partnerships and innovation are the only ways Africa can achieve superior health outcome results with markedly fewer resources. Partnerships with NGOs, FBOs, the private sector and its local communities can provide an immediate capacity boost that the country’s government lacks. Governments cannot do this alone.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.

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The Right Tool for the Job: Supporting Vaccination Rates with Universal Paid Sick Leave

Bill of Health

When COVID-19 vaccines became widely available, we again saw a stark pattern of inequities by neighborhood. This unsurprising decision, given the South’s prevalent use of preemption, impacted COVID-19 infection rates , and, as our new research suggests, COVID-19 vaccination and vaccination disparities.

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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

While the National Institute on Drug Abuse Director characterizes America’s drug overdose mortality as “truly staggering” and the White House calls “the accelerating pace of overdose deaths ‘unacceptable,’” our government refuses to make meaningful changes to reverse course. While the U.S.