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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.
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.”