Public Health
MAPC's Public Health Team integrates public health into every aspect of MAPC's work - from planning projects to data collection and analysis to policy development. The focus is on ensuring that the region's residents, whatever their income, education, or ethnic background, can live the healthiest lives possible.
2024 Highlighted Projects
Root Cause Solutions Exchange program logo.
Root Cause Solutions Exchange
MAPC became a Core Partner for a new initiative by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) called the Root Cause Solutions Exchange (the Exchange). It is a resource hub and network that builds local capacity and resilience by implementing strategies to reduce health inequities and change unjust conditions related to climate change, economic systems, food systems, and housing.
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Climate Community Liaison Resource Hub
In 2024, MAPC's Public Health Team created an online Climate Community Liaison Resource Hub - a resource for those interested in developing climate community liaison roles within their own cities and towns, and community based organizations (CBOs).
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North Suffolk and Cambridge Care Resource Coordination
In partnership with the Public Health Departments in Cambridge, Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop, the MAPC Public Health Team helped serve more than 2,500 cases of COVID-19 and other health conditions within these four cities as well as with community based organizations (CBOs), as part of a Community Health Outreach and Support team.
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Participatory Action Projects
The MAPC Public Health Team continued their work with various communities and local partners for two participatory climate health focused projects in 2024:
C3 Climate Readiness Project (Cambridge)
MetroWest Climate Equity Project (Ashland, Framingham, Natick, and Wayland)
2024 Awards and Accomplishments
Boston Urban Ag Recommendations Report
In July 2024, the Public Health Team concluded a 16-month long project with GrowBoston (City of Boston's Office of Urban Agriculture and Urban Farming Institute) with the publication of a recommendations report. The Report's recommendations provide GrowBoston with guidance on investment in, and expansion of, local food production, specifically in higher food insecure communities.
July 2024
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2024 News of Note
Articles about MAPC's work, expertise, or articles MAPC staff were interviewed for or quoted in.
School-based health center set to bring pediatric care to town without any practices. December 4, 2024. The Bay State Banner.