- August 16, 2021
Meeting the Health Care Needs of LGBTQ Immigrants
- July 27, 2023
How the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act Could Foster Reproductive Health Equity and Justice
The United States (U.S.) has a long history of regulating and restricting immigrants’ self-determination over their health, bodies, reproduction,…
- September 18, 2024
Immigrants Deserve Access to Inclusive and Culturally Congruent Doula Care
Birthing people of color in the United States experience racism in the health care system. Racism in medicine is…
- July 30, 2020
COVID-19: Exacerbating Old Barriers for Immigrants
The U.S. is home to 22 million noncitizens. Immigration status has been repeatedly identified as a social determinant of health.…
- July 30, 2020
Excluding Immigrants from COVID-19 Relief: What’s Old is New Again
During the pandemic, our government should be making every effort to remove exclusions and barriers to health care, conducting…
- March 25, 2020
Immigrant Health Care in the Time of Coronavirus
As a nation, we are facing an unprecedented public health crisis in the U.S. As the number of confirmed…
- September 28, 2018
Trump Team Works to Wall-Off Immigrants from Medicaid
From the moment Donald Trump announced his run for the presidency he revealed his intent to inflame the basest…
- August 7, 2019
New Proposals for Public Charge and Housing Assistance Threaten the Health and Well-Being of Immigrant Families
This blog post was co-authored by legal intern Courtney Mendoza . Last fall, the Department of Homeland Security received comments…
- May 27, 2022
California’s Historic Medi-Cal Exclusion Removal for Older Adults Regardless of Immigration Status
*Co-authored with Iván Barragan, CA Immigrant Policy CenterAs of May 1, 2022, California removed the exclusion to full-scope Medi-Cal…
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