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10.29.2020 a pie chart with text and numbers

With 8 million unique users annually on social media, PHP reminds readers that public health is everything: from Covid-19 to sex to aging.

Fellows Edward Alexander, Tasha McAbee

Editor Michael Stein

10.23.2020 a pie chart with numbers and text

In a particularly low blow, Trump appointees eliminated federal TV advertising for the Marketplace for the 2018 open enrollment period.

Fellow Gray Babbs

10.21.2020 a screenshot of a graph

Increased access to buprenorphine and methadone especially benefits pregnant women and their unborn infants.

Fellow Pat Williams

10.16.2020 a map of the united states

Schools exposed to greater levels of noise pollution are more likely to serve students of color or low-income students.

Fellow Edward Alexander

10.14.2020 a graph of different colored lines

Between 2004 and 2016, foster care placements for abuse or neglect increased from 4.8% of all placements to 5.4%.

Fellow Pat Williams

10.08.2020 a graph of marijuana on a white background

Just two years after Senate Bill 350 was introduced, the state of Pennsylvania itself enacted law SB 3, legalizing medicinal marijuana use.

Fellow Pat Williams

09.23.2020 a graph of a number of people with mental health disorders

Medicare spends $13,072 on people without any known mental health disorders, but $19,676 for those with severe mental illness.

Fellow Pat Williams

09.10.2020 a graph of birth rate

Laws restricting abortion access don’t reduce abortions or the need for them, they unfairly limit who has access to them.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

09.08.2020 a graph showing the amount of delivery in the year

Creating systems that encourage providers to offer IUDs and implants is a critical step to contraception access.

Fellow Gray Babbs

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