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Boston implements Vaccine Equity Grant Initiative

Isabella Abraham March 29, 2021
It includes $1.5 million in funding to increase access and awareness among vulnerable communities.
Boston University’s School of Social Work hosted a virtual panel on Nov. 17 to discuss health care equity in the United States and the responsibility of the Biden administration to tackle disparities in health care. CONNOR ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Social workers discuss health care inequalities on ‘vulnerable populations’ post-election

Connor Allen November 24, 2020
Boston University’s School of Social Work held a panel discussion Nov. 17 on health care equity in the United States and the steps that should be taken during the next four years.
Last week, the City of Boston announced it will distribute $30 million to projects proposed for affordable housing developments. SOFIA KOYAMA/ DFP FILE

City requests affordable housing project proposals

Isabel Contreras August 19, 2020
The City of Boston is offering about $30 million in funding to build or preserve affordable housing developments.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University began researching the novel coronavirus in mid-March in order to develop a vaccine and analyze how the virus is spread. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU labs, researchers and students fight COVID-19

Ellie Yeo April 29, 2020
The BU research community have committed themselves to combating the coronavirus since the campus shutdown announced on March 17. Medical students, lab technicians and professors have joined an international movement of private institutions dedicating their resources and expertise to pandemic response.
Boston City Hall. The City of Boston’s new Health Inequalities Task Force will address any socioeconomic and racial inequalities in coronavirus treatment and direct resources to parts of the city that are struggling the most amidst the pandemic. COURTESY FLICKR

City creates task force to examine racial inequities in health care amid coronavirus

Elyse Genrich April 16, 2020
The coronavirus doesn’t target its victims by race, yet certain racial and socioeconomic groups have been hit disproportionately hard regardless.
The National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University is researching the novel coronavirus in order to develop vaccines and antiviral therapy treatments and understand how the disease spread. COURTESY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

BU labs exploring COVID-19 vaccines

Sarah Readdean March 17, 2020
Researchers at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University are taking advantage of their unique facility in the global effort to develop effective vaccines and drug treatments to COVID-19.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker proposed the elimination of the “family cap,” a welfare rule that denies benefits to children born into families who already receive public assistance. COURTESY OF MARK HERLIHY/ HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE

Baker proposes lifting welfare cap on children

Anastasia Eremina January 29, 2019
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker included a provision in the state’s fiscal year 2020 budget that would end the “family cap,” a welfare rule that prevents children who are born to families that already receive public assistance from receiving benefits.
Fresh Truck, a renovated school bus filled with fresh produce, provides healthy food alternatives for residents living in food desert neighborhoods. PHOTO BY SYDNEY MAES/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Nonprofit’s grocery store on wheels sees new upgrades

Shannon Larson September 20, 2017

Local nonprofit Fresh Truck is looking to further revolutionize the food truck concept through providing healthy and affordable foods to underserved communities, said co-founder Annika Morgan. The...

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