Help Spread the Word: New AHCCCS Tool Helps Members Prepare for Medicaid Work Requirements
AHCCCS has rolled out a useful new website to help Medicaid members figure out whether the new federal work and community engagement requirements are likely to apply to them when the requirements begin next year. The site is Keep My AHCCCS: https://keepmyahcccs.com/ One of the best features is under the “Learn Whether Medicaid Work Requirements Apply to Me” tab. Members answer a series of simple checkbox questions about their circumstances, and the
State Attorney’s General Cram Public Health Protections Down Meta’s Throat
For years, much of public health’s response to the well-documented mental health harm caused by social media among kids has been to tell parents to watch their kids more closely and tell them to spend less time on their phones. What we really needed were policy and regulatory changes aimed at the products themselves… especially the algorithms Meta and Tick Tock use to keep kids scrolling to sell more ads and make
Upstream Public Health Policy: Pima County’s Eviction Prevention Program
There’s an old public health principle: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. OK… maybe that’s not exactly a public health mantra, but you know what I mean. Pima County has been proactively putting that principle to work for five years with its Emergency Eviction Legal Services program (EELS), and the results are promising. More recently, the County has expanded that prevention approach through a much broader
Public Health Journalism this Week
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Arizona’s 2026 Legislative Session: A PublicHealth Perspective Friday, August 28, 2026
View the Webinar AI Webinar Summary Will led a comprehensive review of the 2026 legislative session from a public health perspective, covering both passed bills and vetoed measures that would have harmed public health. The session included several significant public health wins, including improved licensing and oversight of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities through bills 2176, 1162, and 2195, as well as new requirements for county jails to screen
What Does It Take to Run the FDA: Is Overton Up to the Task?
The president has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to be the next Commissioner of the FDA. She’ll be up for Senate confirmation at some point in the next few months presumably. Is she up to the task? A good place to start is: What is the job, and how prepared to do a good job is she? FDA is basically a regulatory agency. It oversees most foods moving in interstate commerce