Yair Centeno
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Addressing the Opioid Epidemic and Spread of Infectious Disease Through the Provision of Syringe Services Programs
IMPH has released a new policy brief, Addressing the Opioid Epidemic and Preventing the Spread of Infectious Disease Through the Provision of Syringe Services Programs. This brief examines the related opioid, human…
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The State of Mental Health in America 2020
Mental Health America (MHA) released its 2020 State of Mental Health in America state rankings that factor in the prevalence of mental illness and rates of access to care. South…
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1 in 3 SC residents suffer from obesity, study shows.
Trust for America’s Health, a national health nonprofit, published its annual obesity report this month and found that the national adult obesity rate was 30.9 percent. South Carolina’s was 34.3…
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Update: IMPH’s Associate Executive Director Maya Pack Selected to Become Riley Fellow
The South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health’s (IMPH) Associate Executive Director Maya Pack joins other leaders across the state selected to participate in the Riley Institute at Furman’s…
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Why Good Health Is Good Business: de Beaumont CEO and U.S. Surgeon General
On June 28th, the de Beaumont Foundation and the Bipartisan Policy Center released a new report detailing the ways in which private businesses and health departments mutually benefit when they…
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Statehouse Report: How S.C. lawmakers can help to make healthcare better
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent (updated 8/17/19) | In some ways, it’s easier to define how health care is changing by how it isn’t: It isn’t going to become more physician-centric. “Right now,…
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Caregivers One-Pager
With the changing health care landscape and state population, South Carolina must create a system to support, educate and train family caregivers. Community-based providers such as direct-care workers, family caregivers…
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Behavioral Health One-Page
Creating a behavioral health system in South Carolina that fully meets the needs of residents and the behavioral health workforce is critical to improving the state’s overall health. The South…
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Mental Health Weekly: Workforce for Health
South Carolina seeks health care, behavioral health workforce improvements Mental Health Weekly interviewed IMPH’s Maya Pack and Brie Hunt about the recently released The Evolving Workforce: Redefining Health Care Delivery in…