September 8, 2024
By Dennis Archambault It isn’t too much of a stretch to call chronic school absenteeism a public health problem. When you look at the root causes — the social...
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September 8, 2024
By Adegbite Adediwura In the discourse on humanitarianism, food insecurity remains one of the most pressing challenges facing marginalized communities. Among these, immigrants and refugees are particularly vulnerable due...
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June 27, 2024
By Dennis Archambault The growing season is well underway, and with it growth in access points for fresh food in Detroit. The opening of two community-based food cooperative grocery...
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May 30, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Crises often lead to innovations that become part of the social infrastructure after the crisis passes. For example, the USDA created a Farmers to...
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May 30, 2024
The Authority Health celebrated the humanitarian service of Claire Hawthorne, a Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine student, and Asiimwe Najjuma, MPH, a recent graduate of the Wayne...
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March 25, 2024
Food is a healer, and it builds resilience. Both of these qualities are absent in populations who live with food insecurity and the malnutrition that comes from consumption of...
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February 28, 2024
Food heals. It comforts. It sustains. But good food is not found where many people who need it the most live. At a recent healthy food preparation demonstration at...
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February 26, 2024
It’s distressing to learn from practicing physicians that racism and sexism continues to create a toxic work environment for professionals. A recent LinkedIn post involving the career choice of...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Credit Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities in Traverse City for fostering the vision and advocacy to create a healthier environment based in the preservation and distribution...
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February 26, 2024
By Dennis Archambault Healthy students learn better. Conversely, unhealthy students struggle to learn. Keeping kids healthy results in improved academic performance, through improved mental acuity, increased immunization rates, and...
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January 29, 2024
By Dennis Archambault The World Health Organization believes a healthy community is not defined merely by health status. It is a process of improving health. The “built environment” or...
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January 9, 2024
“The youth in the community are a vital resource that must be protected, nourished. and loved.” – Excerpts from Claire Hawthorne’s essay on humanitarianism. CLAIRE HAWTHORNE is a Michigan...
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