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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. Though poor maternal mental health can affect all women, the rates are higher for Black and Indigenous women.

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Innovating to Address the Systemic Drivers of Health

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Unfortunately, there are not many health clinics nearby where Elisa can get easy access to primary care with her Medicaid insurance. Yet, in our siloed and disease focused healthcare systems, the root causes for poor health and disparities go largely ignored.

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Battles over Biomarker Testing Shed Light on Precision Medicine’s Inaccessibility

NonProfit Quarterly

Biomarker testing is currently not available at all to Medicaid beneficiaries, and many commercial health insurance companies do not provide coverage for these tests. Additionally, insurers have pushed back on legislation that opens access to biomarker testing because of concerns about the costs of testing and tailored treatments.

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Sabbaticals: A Gateway to Reimagining Health

NonProfit Quarterly

The piece struck a chord with many NPQ readers, as it did for the Health Justice desk. Looking back on that time offline, I recognize how important it was to my work as a health justice practitioner to create space for play, creativity, and dreaming. million fund to enable sabbaticals for BIPOC leaders.

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Measuring Healthcare Equity in North Carolina

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Photo by devn on Unsplash Last month, healthcare leaders in North Carolina announced that they are developing an index to measure health inequities across the state. The index is intended to enable partners in the state to better understand health data, which can then support their efforts to improve health outcomes.

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We’re Hiring: MNA Public Policy Director

MNA Association

Ability to collaborate effectively with the MNA team and a wide range of stakeholders. Represent MNA’s interests in a scrupulous nonpartisan manner in communications with member organizations, the MNA Board and staff, members of the public, and the various stakeholders with whom MNA interacts and engages.

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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Facebook and their outsourcing companies like Samasource, now Sama, refuse to provide proper, meaningful psychiatric care resulting in serious, long-term mental health illnesses for many of these workers. There’s good old-fashioned health and safety violations too. Daniel and his colleagues worked in dangerous conditions.