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This Baltimore Developer Is Breaking Down Barriers to Rebuild Communities
Bree Jones rolls deep. Her nonprofit real estate firm, Parity Homes, has a buyers’ collective of 60 households. They have all gone through a proprietary 6-month curriculum Jones built from scratch, covering everything from financial planning to maintenance, community building, and the [...]
Overturning Roe Will Exacerbate the Black Maternal Mortality Crisis. It’s Time for Our Leaders To Act
Black women’s health and bodily autonomy have been under consistent, unrelenting attack for centuries, a reality that holds true today. The Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and deny millions of people the constitutional right to abortion is expected to disproportionately hurt [...]
Urban Health Residents Learn About Holistic Care During Health Care for the Homeless Rotations
Through compassionate patient care, advocacy, teaching and scholarship, Johns Hopkins urban health residents receive world class clinical training that integrates them in the Baltimore community. During their two-week Health Care for the Homeless rotation, for example, residents see how the organization’s clinic [...]
Study: Gap Widens Between Urban and Rural Vaccination Rates
Nearly 59% of residents in rural counties had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine between Dec. 14, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2022, compared with more than 75% of individuals living in urban counties, according to an analysis published Thursday [...]
Children and digital dumpsites: e-waste exposure and child health
Overview: This report summarizes the latest scientific knowledge on the links between informal e-waste recycling activities and health outcomes in children. As many as 18 million children and adolescents and 12.9 million women, including an unknown number of women of childbearing age, [...]