What’s inside:
What’s inside:
Transportation is a critical issue for health equity. Not only does access to reliable, safe, and affordable transportation connect people and communities to the resources needed to be healthy, the transportation sector is a driving factor of climate change and air pollution, both of which disproportionately impact low-income and communities of color, causing greater health inequity.
MPHA has two transportation policy priorities for the 2019-2020 legislative session:
On Wednesday, January 23, Governor Baker announced his budget proposal for fiscal year 2020. Governor Baker’s budget proposal includes a 1.5% increase in funding over FY19 spending. It level funds the Department of Public Health with an overall budget of $423 million.
Read MoreNow is a critical time to take action for health equity in the Commonwealth. It is the start of a new legislative session and by January 18, 2019, Massachusetts legislators filed more than 5,000 new bills that will be considered over the next two years.
Please take a few minutes this week to reach out to your Representative and Senator by phone, email, or in person and ask them to co-sponsor these five bills that will improve public health in your community.
To find your representatives’ contact information or to find out who your representatives are, click here.
Please let us know that you took action by emailing MPHA Field Director Andrea Freeman at: afreeman@mapublichealth.org. The deadline to call about co-sponsorship is Thursday, January 31st.
Click here to download the one-page list of MPHA’s 2019 priority bills.
Massachusetts Public Health Alliance
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