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In the state, Black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The county's initiatives aimed at reducing racial disparities work but depend on federal dollars — money that might not flow amid budget cuts and a push to end DEI programs.

The federal government is pursuing potentially steeper cuts to health agencies, with a proposed $40 billion reduction for the budget of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Federal staff cuts and delayed funding limit access to the Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps over a million people across the state pay bills and get air conditioning units.

Health commissioner says disparities in dental care will put children living in poverty at risk.

We have more effective tools for HIV prevention than ever before. But the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the programs that deliver them could squander an historic opportunity to end the epidemic.

For many small organizations, the federal grants were a rare opportunity to invest in local public health initiatives.

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration raids and threats have undermined these efforts, researchers say.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in Covid-related funds for state and local health departments in late March.

The state passed a budget that includes expanding home health care visits for pregnancies, new parents, and newborns.

The administration slashed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, firing roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

New York state is reeling from more than $360 million in cuts to public health, while NYC faces a more than $100 million loss.

The Cobb and Douglas Public Health Department director said the agency would lose nearly $500,000 from federal cuts.

The Department of Health and Human Services abruptly terminated grants that supported infectious disease prevention and surveillance work in New York City.

The federal agency funds $50 million of efforts to reduce HIV in Georgia, which had the second-highest rate of new cases in 2022.

City and state health agencies need the collaboration of CDC experts to help investigate local disease outbreaks and other threats to public health.

As House Republicans seek $880 billion in cuts, leaders of community hospitals and health centers in New York warn that cuts to Medicaid could mean layoffs and service reductions.

Small businesses use a tiny portion of the NIH’s budget to bridge the gap between research and consumers, like making devices that reduce pain without opioids.

Here are the decisions Georgia lawmakers made on public health bills ahead of a crucial legislative deadline.

NYC Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest municipal health care system, serves more than 1 million New Yorkers each year, the majority of whom are on Medicaid or uninsured.

The university is joining a growing list of top research universities that plan to freeze or limit hiring because of concerns about federal research funding cuts.