Susan Heinlen Spalding, MD, Senior Medical Advisor, Children’s Health Fund COVID vaccines are now available to children ages 12 and older in the U.S., and trials for younger ages are underway. But misinformation about the vaccines’ safety is still widespread. When it comes to vaccinating children, concerns can be even…

By María de los Angeles Corral, Associate Vice President Marketing and Communications, Children’s Health Fund Women immigrants are among the unsung heroes of this country’s response to COVID-19. As a major component of the healthcare workforce, women immigrants have been invaluable as the country struggled to respond to the greatest…

By Susan Heinlen Spalding, MD, Senior Medical Advisor to Children’s Health Fund It feels like we are turning the corner. There are now three effective COVID vaccines and pharmaceutical companies are increasing production to create enough supply to vaccinate all U.S. adults by the end of May. Yet in underserved…

By Nadia Khasawneh & María de los Ángeles Corral, Children’s Health Fund Children need consistent, loving messages affirming their beauty, their potential, and their worth to know what is possible for them and to fully believe…

COVID-19 inequities are impacting children’s access to dental care, and children in underinvested communities are impacted the most. Community healthcare and corporate action can help. By: Dennis Walto, CEO Children’s Health Fund There is no dispute, the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted children’s education. What is less well understood is the…

By Dr. Wenimo Okoya, Assistant Vice President, Healthy and Ready to Learn Initiative, Children’s Health Fund In the last two months, conversations that I never thought would make it to the mainstream are suddenly circulating through social media graphics, news pieces, and corporate messaging. America is finally admitting that inequities…

By Wenimo Okoya, Associate Vice President, Healthy and Ready to Learn Initiative, Children’s Health Fund As a Black woman and an educator, I have been feeling many emotions since hearing of the brutal murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. Primarily despair, grief, rage, and exhaustion. I look…

By Dennis Walto, CEO, Children’s Health Fund As children’s health advocates, we can’t ignore the relationship between education and health: a child’s physical and mental health directly impacts their ability to learn. Similarly, the quality of education is a strong predictor of health and wellbeing well into adulthood. Recently, I…

By Dennis Walto, CEO, Children’s Health Fund “How can I unenroll my son from Medicaid?” said an anxious voice on the phone. It was the father of Carlos, one of the young patients at a clinic in New Orleans. He had called his son’s pediatrician in a panic. Medicaid has…