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Through Community Catalyst’s Vaccine Equity and Access Program (VEAP), advocates throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico have been fighting tirelessly to combat lack of vaccine access, dis/misinformation and hesitancy.

Youth with lived experiences of mental illness and substance use challenges, including addiction, understand first-hand the limitations, inequities, and failures of the current system.

For the first time in history, the U.S. National Drug Control Strategy includes support for harm reduction – drug overdose prevention and health interventions that save lives. This is a…

Executive Director Emily Stewart on Community Catalyst’s strategic vision to create a health system rooted in race equity and health justice, and a society where health is a right for…

It is no secret that Black people face a number of health inequities in the United States. Spanning the entire lifespan from birth to end of life, there are disparate…

The American Academy of Pediatrics and other prominent health associations declared a national state of emergency in children’s mental health last week.

The largest of any opioid settlement thus far, it will potentially put billions of dollars into state coffers earmarked expressly for abating the substance use epidemic that has ravaged the…

We spoke with Texas advocates about the work they have been doing to fight the onslaught of anti-transgender bills in the Texas legislature during the 2021 legislative session.

Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, more than 2 million people have signed up for ACA Coverage or Medicaid. Unfortunately, these changes expire in two years.

This week Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock released a legislative proposal with senators Ossoff and Baldwin to close the Medicaid coverage gap in states that have yet to adopt Medicaid expansion.