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NIH advances landmark recommendations on disability inclusion and anti-ableism

Jan 05, 2023

The NIH, with its nearly $50 billion annual budget funding biomedical research, clinical interventions, training, and other activities, has recently prioritized increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in its workforce and its extensive activities.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Updates Health Equity Image

Dec 07, 2022

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) conducted a survey that led results to create both an updated bike graphic and a graphic based on an entirely new concept, which uses a curb to visualize the issue and introduces different characteristics of individuals and their environments. RWJF used a human-centered design approach, ensuring the process was transparent and sharing drafts with a broad, diverse set of people including RWJF staff and consultants, members of our diversity-related committees, and many others. RWJF gathered feedback from people with lived experiences with disability, parents of children facing accessibility challenges, and people in many fields and sectors.

Accessibility and Disability Equity Library

Nov 14, 2022

Health Equity Libraries on Community Commons build capacity for changemakers to advance equity for a specific priority population by sharing relevant resources. Priority populations are exploration avenues on Community Commons that represent diverse groups, communities, demographics, identities, statuses, and people with lived experiences. They connect users directly with populations of interest, lift up important underserved groups, and help root our work in equity and justice.

Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice

Nov 04, 2022

To build a society that advances the human rights of all people requires the social justice movement to be intentional in including intersecting identities and diverse equity struggles.

Health Affairs Releases Issue on Disability and Health

Oct 04, 2022

On October 3, 2022, Health Affairs published a theme issue on disability and health. The issue includes original research, analyses, and commentaries that provides a multidimensional perspective on disability and health.

Public Transportation: A Driver of Health and Equity

Sep 21, 2022

This brief focuses on the relationship between urban public transportation and health and health equity as well as the potential health and health equity impacts of urban public mass transportation on individuals and communities. This brief also highlights policy and practice interventions that may help states and municipalities better align urban public transportation and public health goals.

HHS Issues Proposed Rule Under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities

Sep 20, 2022

On August 4, 2022, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM or proposed rule) to reinterpret section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in a health program or activity, any part of which is receiving federal financial assistance.

FDA plans to authorize bivalent boosters by Labor Day

Aug 26, 2022

The Food and Drug Administration plans to authorize updated versions of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s Covid boosters around Labor Day, said two people familiar with the discussions. The Biden administration is preparing to distribute the updated booster shots to teenagers and adults as part of its fall booster campaign. Both Pfizer's and Moderna's so-called bivalent vaccines target the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants, in addition to the original coronavirus strain in a single shot. BA.5 is responsible for nearly 90% of all new Covid cases in the U.S., according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Guidance on "Long COVID" and the ADA

Aug 26, 2022

Although many people with COVID-19 get better within weeks, some people continue to experience symptoms that can last months after first being infected, or may have new or recurring symptoms at a later time.1 This can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the initial illness was mild. People with this condition are sometimes called “long-haulers.” This condition is known as “long COVID.” In light of the rise of long COVID as a persistent and significant health issue, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice have joined together to provide this guidance

COVID-19 Accessible Resources

Aug 25, 2022

The Georgia Tech Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI), with funding from the CDC Foundation and technical assistance from CDC, is adapting COVID-19 materials into accessible formats for people with disabilities.