Latest News for: health disparities

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Trump administration revokes state and local health funding

The Hill 27 Mar 2025
... of dollars in federal grants that state and local health departments were using to track infectious diseases, health disparities, vaccinations, mental health services, and other health issues.
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Feds cancel $12 billion of grants to state health department, including $130 million to Washington

The Spokesman-Review 27 Mar 2025
At least $130 million in federal funding to the Washington Department of Health was cancelled this week ... Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity ProgramImmunizationsCare Connect Partnership Evaluation Health Disparities.
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Threatened Medicaid cuts set off alarms

Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder 27 Mar 2025
Proposed Medicaid cuts could exacerbate ...
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Killing MBDA won’t just cripple Black businesses — It’ll weaken America

Nashville Pride 27 Mar 2025
Under the pretense of race neutrality, they are actively working to erase policies that acknowledge and address systemic disparities ... How present-day health disparities link to past policies.
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Lubbock health official: Funding cuts will hurt efforts to contain measles outbreak

Raw Story 27 Mar 2025
DSHS was notified that the federal grant funding for Immunization/COVID, Epidemiology Laboratory Capacity (ELC/COVID), and Health Disparities/COVID, is terminated as of March 24, 2025,” the notice ...
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Trump officials to pull back billions in funding from local health departments

Michigan Live 27 Mar 2025
... as community health workers responding to COVID and a program established in 2021 to address COVID health disparities among high-risk and underserved patients, including those in minority populations.
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Trump administration says it will pull back billions in COVID funding from local health departments

Bangor Daily News 27 Mar 2025
... as community health workers responding to COVID and a program established in 2021 to address COVID health disparities among high-risk and underserved patients, including those in minority populations.
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CDC to slash infectious-disease funding for states; California impact uncertain

The Los Angeles Times 27 Mar 2025
The funding was awarded during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to aid the state with its respiratory virus monitoring, testing and response, immunizations and vaccines for children, and to help address health disparities, Pan said.
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Trump administration to pull back billions from state, local health departments, including those in Oregon

The Oregonian 27 Mar 2025
... as community health workers responding to COVID and a program established in 2021 to address COVID health disparities among high-risk and underserved patients, including those in minority populations.
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Statistics represent people needing help

Daily Herald - Chicago 27 Mar 2025
LGBTQ+ individuals face alarming mental ...
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Health Insurance Providers Stocks Q4 Highlights: CVS Health (NYSE:CVS)

The Call 27 Mar 2025
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the health insurance providers industry, including CVS Health (NYSE ... The 11 health insurance providers stocks we track reported a satisfactory Q4.
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DOGE cuts health funding to Kansas, claims $49M in savings from canceled grants

Salina Journal 27 Mar 2025
as Health and Human Services secretary ... "This decision impacts COVID-19-related funding for immunizations, health disparities, community health workers, and epidemiology programs," KDHE spokesperson Jill Bronaugh said March 26.
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Anthony Albanese's government pledges $1.3billion to Indigenous communities as part of efforts to close the ...

The Daily Mail 27 Mar 2025
... governments of Australia that aims to reduce disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous Australians on key health, education and economic opportunity targets.
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Here's why a Texas lawmaker is threatening to defund UT if it keeps LGBTQ, gender studies

Austin American-Statesman 27 Mar 2025
... UT was spurred by an event hosted by the Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies on disparities in health outcomes and gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary people of color.
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New Publication Reveals the Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Health Outcomes and Importance of Self-Care

Pharmiweb 26 Mar 2025
Mike Reid, study author and Associate Professor, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, said, “Health disparities are often driven by where you live, what you earn, and the opportunities you have.
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