Governmental public health agencies in the US are understaffed, and ongoing shortages will have a detrimental effect on their ability to provide basic public health services and protections. Public ...

Each year, the state Legislature allocates funding for local health departments to use for what the state calls foundational public health services — like access to medical and oral care — that should ...

As the U.S. continues to face complex public health challenges, a new paper published by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health calls for a redefinition of the public ...

It is encouraging that bipartisan efforts are gaining momentum in both Kentucky and Indiana to overhaul their underfunded local public health systems (“Two red states show how the nation’s public ...

Washington public health departments will see a slight reduction in state funding for basic services over the next two years, but the severity and local impacts of that loss on the Kitsap Peninsula ...

One health-related truth the COVID-19 pandemic underscored is this: public health issues frequently cross borders. That notion is part of the impetus for a new micro-credential, Public Health from ...

Last year, a bill for improvement of public health services was unanimously passed by both branches of the state Legislature and died on the former governor’s desk. There is hope that the Gov. Healey ...