Blogs and Testimony: Health

Building the mental health system our city’s children so desperately need – and deserve

May 8, 2012

Today, we welcome Shannon Hall, the executive director of the D.C....
New infant mortality data: Positive trend, but large disparities by place

April 24, 2012

Infant mortality, a metric widely used to compare the health and well-...
World AIDS Day: A Local Perspective

December 1, 2011

In honor of World AIDS Day, here are a few ways HIV/AIDS is affecting...
Lunch lines grow across the country, and in D.C.

November 30, 2011

More students than ever are receiving free and reduced price lunches, The...
A campaign worth noticing

October 31, 2011

How can we reduce poverty, school failure, child abuse and neglect, crime...
More worrying than the stock market

September 23, 2011

While the nose-diving stock market may be monopolizing headlines today, I...
My next stop in my journey to becoming an advocate

September 22, 2011

Editor's Note: A belated welcome to our Public Policy Intern, Lauren...
Reflections on the poverty numbers

September 15, 2011

On Tuesday the Census bureau released staggering new numbers...
Saluting the newest scholars in DC's early childhood workforce

September 13, 2011

As an advocate, I feel at times a few steps removed from the families we...
Pediatricians can do more to spur healthy brain development

September 12, 2011

Editor’s Note: The American Academy of Pediatrics launched Healthy Child...

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