Following MPHA’s Public Health Excellence Day at the State House on October 23rd, Deputy Director Oami Amarasingham was featured on WMBR Local News in an interview with Linda Pinkow, broadcast on October 27, 2025. The conversation highlighted the Public Health…
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Healey Administration takes first-of-its-kind action to guarantee insurance coverage of vaccines recommended by the state Boston — Governor Maura Healey today announced a series of immediate measures to ensure that vaccines remain available to Massachusetts residents of all ages, while President…
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Disruptions to national vaccine recommendations under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are starting to reverberate across Massachusetts, threatening the state’s access to COVID shots just as the annual season for respiratory viruses — and vaccines to protect against them — approaches….
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Following MPHA’s announcement that it would join five leading national public health and medical professional societies in a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the organization received coverage from more…
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The Boston Globe published a Letter to the Editor from MPHA Executive Director Carlene Pavlos and MPHA Deputy Director Oami Amarasingham on the dismantling of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP). Read the article.
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Carlene Pavlos speaks to the role of Community Health Centers and the importance of accurate, detailed data to address inequitable health outcomes for BIPOC and low-income people. Read the article.
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Carlene along with DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, and colleague Nancy Kreiger, professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health address the federal gag order on sharing public health data, an act Carlene likened to book burning….
Read MoreMPHA detailed what is at stake if the Trump administration is successful in freezing federal grants and loans to myriad organizations working on public health related issues. Read the article.
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Massachusetts will mandate new performance standards and allocate resources for its 321 local public health departments to “improve a patchwork of local services responsible for ensuring restaurants are clean, pools are safe, and disease outbreaks are tracked and reported.” As…
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MPHA Executive Director Carlene Pavlos and Deputy Director Oami Amarasingham co-signed a letter to the editor addressing President-Elect Trump’s plan to nominate the antithesis of public health to head the Health and Human Services Department. Pavlos and Amarasingham emphasized that,…
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