At TFAH's Leadership Blog Drs. Gracia and Rich discuss the strategies to ensure continued progress reducing substance misuse and suicide deaths tinyurl.com/r8ufe3fc

At night, Toni Morrison worked on her novels. By day, she was the first Black female senior-editor at Random House. She championed a fresh generation of authors, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. A new book chronicles her time as an editor:

Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark.

(via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

How can public health professionals explain planetary health and environmental changes in their communities? Public Health Communications Collaborative has created the Planetary Health is Public Health guide, in partnership with Planetary Health Alliance. tinyurl.com/4ra9mvbk

This includes the hundreds of billions of dollars in crypto!

On June 10 at 1:30 PM ET, Public Health Communications Collaborative will host, Media Relations Today: How to Build Trust in Public Health Guidance. Learn how to build an infrastructure that will support your media relations success. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

TFAH’s Pain in the Nation 2025 report tracks alcohol, drug, and suicide deaths. Despite recent improvement, rates of such deaths are still tragically high and progress in addressing them is uneven and at risk due to federal budget cuts. www.tfah.org/report-detai...

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

In the spring of 2004, ESPN let me go. It was unmooring. It was a shock. I had a wife and baby to take care of. That fall, Jeff Behnke and Jeff Ogan hired me to work at Turner Sports. It was the best time I ever had in my life. Godspeed, @nbaontnt.bsky.social. You saved me. I love you all.

TFAH’s new Pain in the Nation report found that American Indian/Alaska Native people had the highest drug overdose and alcohol-induced death rates among U.S. racial/ethnic population groups in 2023. Tailored solutions are needed. www.tfah.org/report-detai...

Sustained investment in prevention and harm reduction programs is vital to saving lives. Learn more in TFAH’s Pain in the Nation 2025 report. www.tfah.org/report-detai...

New Report - Pain in the Nation 2025: Recent progress in reducing substance misuse deaths is at risk due to federal budget cuts. Funding for prevention programs needs to be preserved. www.tfah.org/report-detai...

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Could this be the biggest climate story of the year?

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand

Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta:

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EXCLUSIVE: The CDC on Tuesday brought back around 300 employees it had dismissed through a RIF. It will now provide a one-to-one "substitution” to even out the rescinded RIFs with new cuts, according to an email obtained by Government Executive. buff.ly/5F4WKvz

A group of well-respected public health experts -- including trusted CitizenCohn source @drjoshs.bsky.social -- has launched a blog/website on vaccines in the hopes of spreading facts instead of misinformation

Check it out here www.cspinet.org/cspi-news/st...