AFT Health Care, Spring 2025

Volume 6, no. 1

Union Highlights: Protecting Immigrants and Refugees in Our Facilities

Fighting for Our Patients

Clinicians’ Voices Matter in the Assault on Public Health

Irwin Redlener

The Future of Public Health

Laying the Foundation for an Integrated, Equitable System

Jonathan M. Samet

The Tobacco Epidemic

An Example of Public Health in Action

Jonathan M. Samet

Building Bridges

Community Health Workers Advance Healthcare

Magaly Dante

The Value of Partnering with Community Health Workers

Venita Perales, Amy Moncion

Addressing Bias in Clinical Algorithms to Advance Health Equity

Clara M. Bosco, Marshall H. Chin, William F. Parker

Protecting Patients and Hospital Systems from the Devastation of Climate Change

Hannah N. W. Weinstein, Cassandra Thiel, Cecilia Sorensen

Demanding Action

Protecting Worker Health and Safety at New Mexico Highlands University

Andrea Crespin, Kathy Jenkins, Michael Remke

Protecting Workers

Lessons from Occupational Medicine

Robert Harrison, Joseph Hughes, Katherine Kirkland

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