Illinois Aging Together, a campaign for aging equity led by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, celebrates Illinois Governor Pritzker’s executive order to establish a planning commission for a multi-sector plan for aging.  

Across the nation, states are beginning to develop multisector plans for aging to improve service coordination across state agencies and sectors to address the major demographic shifts that are happening as our society ages. Illinois Aging Together, which has rallied 188 organizational supporters,...

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Affirmative Action Matters in Public Health

by Karol Dean, PhD, Ronisha Edwards-Elliott, MSW, and A. Gita Krishnaswamy, MEd, MPH Contributors: Mia Hayford, Mia Bonds, and Jessica Coffee A year has passed since the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action in college admissions, and its impacts on community health are becoming...

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