Policy Brief

Amanda McMahon, Julian Scoffield

Policy Brief: The Role of Healthcare Providers in the COVID-19 Response Moving Forward

Vaccine hesitancy has been a public health concern for years and with the emergence of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and quick...

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Amanda McMahon, Meredith Wilson

Policy Brief: Food Insecurity in the United States

Access to healthy food is vital to live, yet 13.5 million American households struggle with food insecurity. The lack of access to...

Pyxis Partners

Policy Brief: Childhood Vaccines in the United States: A Review of state laws and implications

Hesitancy and objections around vaccines has contributed to a surge of preventable infectious diseases. The World Health Organization...

Amanda McMahon, Meredith Wilson

Barriers to healthcare in the U.S. for transgender individuals

Background Discrimination within the healthcare system affects many marginalized communities. People who identify as LGBTQIA+,...

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Amanda McMahon

Policy Brief: Using Cultural Competency Training to Address Racism in the U.S. Healthcare System

Cultural competency is the provision of effective, equitable, understandable and respectful quality care and services that are responsive...

Amanda McMahon

Policy Brief: Health Data Standards in the United States

Summary Current data shows that health disparities have been an ongoing problem for many years, however, oftentimes available data does...

Amanda McMahon

Policy Brief: COVID-19’s Effect on the Opioid Crisis

A public health crisis that has been brewing since the 1990’s in the United States is the opioid epidemic. Deaths attributed to opioid...

Amanda McMahon, Jessica Bonilla

Policy Brief: Maternal Mortality in the US. A Review of States with High and Low Rates

High rates of pregnancy-related maternal deaths in the United States (U.S.) are alarming. The risk of a woman in the U.S. dying due to...