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September 19, 2021
NHeLP Celebrates Telehealth Awareness Week, September 19- 25, 2021
T. Nancy Hsu and Daniel Young
September 19-25, 2021 is Telehealth Awareness Week. NHeLP joins many stakeholders, health care providers, and advocates to acknowledge this…
September 10, 2021
Improving Childhood Health: The Unrealized Potential of Medicaid’s EPSDT Program
Zamir M. Brown
**This article was originally published by The Network for Public Health Law. In the United States, millions of children live…
September 8, 2021
Seven Ways Proposed Improvements to Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Can Help Older Adults & People with Disabilities
Jennifer Lav
The Senate and House will soon move forward on landmark Medicaid legislation. One critically important piece of Congress’s reconciliation…
July 14, 2021
Race-Based Prediction in Pregnancy Algorithm Is Damaging to Maternal Health
Liz McCaman Taylor
Algorithms AboundIn today’s fast-paced health care system, algorithms are ubiquitous, and the provision of maternity care is no different.…
May 27, 2021
Juvenile Justice Laws Provide Model for Improving Health Care Access for Individuals Leaving Incarceration
Andrew Hayes and Cathren Cohen
Transitioning from incarceration to the community without services and supports is medically risky, especially for people who are incarcerated…
May 26, 2021
Help Prevent Suicide Among LGBTQ youth
Abigail Coursolle, Jennifer Lav, and Kasey Nichols
Suicide is not only a major public health crisis in the U.S., it is one that disproportionately impacts the…
May 6, 2021
Social Determinants of Health Legislation: Opportunities for a New Future
Zamir M. Brown
This article was originally published by The Network for Public Health Law.On January 31, 2020, COVID-19 was declared a…
May 6, 2021
State Momnibus Bills Take Aim at the Black Maternal Mortality Epidemic
Helen Mun* and Madeline Morcelle
Our country is in the throes of a Black maternal mortality epidemic. Black birthing people are three to four…
April 14, 2021
It’s Black Maternal Health Week. We Need Bold Federal Legislative Solutions to Save Black Lives
Madeline Morcelle and Helen Mun*
The people closest to the problems are closest to the solutionsIt’s Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW)—a time for awareness,…