As Congress approaches yet another deadline to fund the government and its programs, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)—a program that provides healthy foods and other services to pregnant and postpartum women along with infants and young children—is seeing a potentially devastating funding shortfall and cuts.
The UHC is excited to announce the recipients of our latest round of working group funding: the Black Immigrant Health Working Group, the Queer Inclusion, Equality, Health, & Rights (QuIEHR) Working Group, and the Social Policy and Program Evaluation for Advancing Health Equity Working Group.
In a new Policy Core blog series, we’ll highlight important topics in urban policy with implications for health and health equity. We hope the series will help our collaborators learn about various policy areas and potentially spark interest in future research and practice experience on these policies. This month we start with a (literal) hot topic in health policy: extreme heat and worker protections.
