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To improve maternal health, doulas need support - not empty promises | Opinion
Sheila Reynertson, senior program officer at RWJF, and Tatiana Smith, a Jersey City-based doula and education product designer, urge New Jersey lawmakers to fully support and trust doulas and equip them with the tools and access they need to address the state’s dire maternal health crisis with the urgency it requires.
123 Leading Organizations Urge President Biden: Act Now to Eliminate Menthol Cigarettes
Led by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, leading civil rights, public health, medica, faith, and youth-serving organizations, including RWJF, placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post and issued a joint statement urging the Biden Administration to issue final rules this month to prohibit menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, meeting a deadline the Administration set in December.
The Promise and Peril of Being Transgender in America
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, and Julie Morita, MD, executive vice president at RWJF, outline new findings from the largest-ever survey of transgender people in the U.S. The data show how much progress our nation has made—and how much more work is left to do.
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