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PIH applauds equity and community focus, recommends long-term investment
Posted on May 14, 2021 Lissa Rinvil (left), a community health worker with Healthcare Network; Jackie Cochrane, a registered nurse with Healthcare Network; and Caroline Murtagh, a project manager with PIH s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit, go door-to-door providing COVID-19 education in a neighborhood in Immokalee, Fla.
Photos by Scott McIntyre for Partners In Health
Yesterday, the Biden Administration announced a $7.4 billion investment in a public health workforce, to be drawn from the American Rescue Plan Act recently passed by the United States Congress. This follows an earlier announcement of $250 million for community-based organizations, also drawn from the American Rescue Plan Act.
Why and How to Prioritize Those Most at Risk in COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout
Posted on Apr 29, 2021 Mary Takach, MPH, RN, Sr. Health Policy Advisor for Boston Health Care for the Homeless, administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Nimidis Gonzalez, Direct Care worker for Catholic Charities. Boston Health Care for the Homeless workers help to vaccinate the staff at St. Ambrose Shelter in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
Photo by Jodi Hilton for Partners In Health
Every adult in the United States is now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines a critical milestone. As the nation races against a fourth wave of the virus and increasing spread of variants, vaccinating the entire population is as urgent as ever.
Death toll reveals deep racial injustice in America’s health care, housing, employment systems
Posted on Apr 29, 2021 Supporters of the People s Vaccine participate in a rally for global solidarity against vaccine apartheid in Cambridge, Mass., home to many global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Photo by Zack DeClerck / Partners In Health
The following op-ed was written by Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Partners In Health s chief medical officer, who is helping lead the organization s efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, through the U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit, and across 11 PIH-supported countries around the world. This op-ed was inspired by research Mukherjee conducted and published in the Harvard Health Policy Review.
PIH connects patients with housing support during pandemic
Posted on Feb 3, 2021 Activists and tenants protest evictions in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood before the COVID-19 pandemic. In many parts of the country, COVID-19 has only exacerbated the ongoing eviction crisis for poor and working class people.
Photo by Zack DeClerck / PIH.
A bus stop. A park bench. A subway car. For the unhoused, shelter is found in many places but safety remains elusive.
“The lives of homeless people are incredibly public,” says Dr. Evan Lyon, a senior technical advisor with PIH’s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit. “To be homeless means you’re circulating a lot. You have to go from this place to that place. Maybe panhandle, maybe go to the library, maybe sleep on a train overnight.”