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Ramla Hagi stands in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse
Health Law, Policy & Management

In the Health Policy Pipeline: A Q&A with Ramla Hagi

in memoriam

In Memoriam: Kimberly Shea

covid-19.

immigrant health

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Global Health

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June 13, 2025
healthcare system

US Excess Deaths Continued to Rise Even After the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 23, 2025
incarceration

Many TB Cases May Have Gone Undetected in Prisons in Europe and the Americas During COVID-19

March 31, 2025
Percent Positivity of COVID-19
healthcare disparities

COVID-19 in 2025: ‘A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One’

March 8, 2025
Digital rendering of National Covid Memorial
National Covid Memorial

“Remember Every One”: Memorializing the More Than 1 Million Lives Lost to COVID-19 in the US

March 5, 2025
Global Health

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February 13, 2025
Latina mother holding young infant
infant mortality

Paid Parental Leave and Infectious Disease Risk Among Infants

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A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."
covid-19

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

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Male Worker Wearing Safety Vest Loads Cardboard Boxes into Delivery Truck, Rests. Dramatic Shot
Research

Job Flexibility and Security Promotes Better Mental Health

March 29, 2024

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