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MA Lawmakers Work to Enhance Tax Credits for Working Families

August 7, 2023

25 Years: How It Started, How It’s Going (Equity Podcast Series Part 1)

March 22, 2023

SNAP benefits will drop for millions of Americans as pandemic aid winds down

March 9, 2023

An Atlanta hospital takes on the city’s housing crisis

December 5, 2022

Allison Bovell-Ammon Interviewed By WNHN Radio

August 10, 2022

Hunger Vital Sign Explainer Series

June 24, 2022

Families struggling without child tax credit

May 16, 2022

White House Pushes to Get Child Tax Credit to Low-Income Households

May 15, 2022

Children’s advocates want universal free school lunches to continue

May 12, 2022

Mass. is flush with cash, so now what?

May 11, 2022

Food insecurity rises as families lose child tax credit payments, data shows

May 11, 2022

New study shows impact of child tax credit payments for families

May 9, 2022

Podcast: The Earth Disease: Social Determinants of Health and Climate Change

May 4, 2022

Too Many Children Are Still Dying Young Around the World

May 1, 2022

Safety Net Hospitals: Why BIPOC Wealth Creation is Needed to Achieve Health

April 11, 2022

A key centerpiece for health in schools: free lunch

April 7, 2022

One tool to help create affordable housing — real estate transfer fees

March 24, 2022

Residents of color disproportionately hit by evictions after moratorium expired, says new report

March 23, 2022

Living Well Into The Future: Food Is Medicine

March 13, 2022

Child hunger is expected to worsen

December 23, 2021

Kids go hungry, face malnutrition as safety net ebbs

December 17, 2021

‘This relief currently has an expiration date, but parenting does not’: Senator Markey calls for extending child tax credit

November 22, 2021

More than 101,000 New York City public school students faced homelessness last year

November 16, 2021

What Boston Needs To Know About The Child Tax Credit Payments

July 15, 2021

Childhood hunger before and after COVID

May 19, 2021

NNHS Virtual Housing and Zoning Day

May 6, 2021

Challenging Racist Systems, Processes, and Analyses in Social Care

May 3, 2021

NLIHC Fair Housing Q&A mini Series

April 19, 2021

Podcast: Hunger in America – Part 2

March 28, 2021

Get Konnected! Announces List of Most Impactful Black Women in Boston

March 23, 2021

Podcast: Hunger in America – Part 1

March 14, 2021

How Will Biden’s Fix for Child Poverty Affect Kids’ Health?

March 11, 2021

The 1st big bill of the Biden era is a BFD. Here’s why

March 10, 2021

Thousands Wait In Lines At Food Pantries. They Could Be Shopping At Grocery Stores

February 11, 2021

Founder Dr. Deborah Frank honored by Massachusetts Medical Society with its Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service

January 4, 2021

Dr. Deborah Frank’s Speech Featured During SNAP Gap Lobby Day

February 13, 2020

February 5th, 2020 – Dr. Megan Sandel Testifies Before The House Of Representative’s Committee On Oversight And Reform

February 12, 2020

Housing Instability Among Families With Young Children With Special Health Care Needs

July 12, 2019

How Deputy Director of Innovative Partnerships, Rich Sheward, uses his MPP tools every day

April 19, 2019

Timing and Duration of Pre- and Postnatal Homelessness and the Health of Young Children

September 4, 2018

Representative Rosa DeLauro cites Children’s HealthWatch research while speaking on the House floor against proposed policy changes to weaken SNAP

August 19, 2016

Youth from PressPass TV produced a video highlighting Children’s HealthWatch research

August 19, 2016

Boston Medical Center recognizes the 30 years of tireless effort of Dr. Frank

August 19, 2016

Dr. Frank featured in Making America Stronger: U.S. Food Stamp Program

August 19, 2016

Co-founder Dr. Frank is featured in award-winning documentary

August 19, 2016

Principal Investigator Dr. Mariana Chilton gives Ted Talk exploring why food is not the solution to hunger

August 19, 2016

Dr. Cook, Principal Investigator, featured on NCTV17 news regarding food insecurity

August 19, 2016

Dr. Mariana Chilton featured in award-winning film, A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It

August 19, 2016

Dr. Frank, Children’s HealthWatch Founder, speaks at University of Arkansas, Little Rock regarding “Hunger, Hardship, and Child Health”

August 19, 2016

Dr. Diana Becker Cutts speaks at Second Harvest Heartland’s “Hunger and Health Forum” regarding food insecurity, nutrition and activity

August 19, 2016

Children’s HealthWatch Research and Policy Director, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, presented at the release of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council

August 19, 2016

CHW’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Diana Cutts, presented Undernourished and Overweight, The Link Between Food Insecurity and Obesity at the Minnesota American Academy of Pediatrics Conference

August 19, 2016

Dr. Megan Sandel, Principal Investigator, speaks with Dave Brown, executive director of National NeighborWorks Association, on why home matters

August 19, 2016

Dr. Sandel shares “Housing and Health: Why a Stable, Decent, Affordable Home is Like a Vaccine” at the Urban Land Institute Housing Opportunity 2014 Conference

August 19, 2016

Home Matters America features Dr. Megan Sandel discussing how homes matter for health.

August 19, 2016

Children’s HealthWatch Research and Policy Director, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba discusses the importance of safe, stable, and affordable housing on the health & well-being of children

August 19, 2016

Health Resources in Action and Metropolitan Area Planning Council features Dr. Megan Sandel discussing the importance of healthy communities

August 19, 2016

A HUG FROM PAUL RYAN follows Tianna Gaines-Turner, a witness to hunger in Philadelphia, after her testimony at the 2014 House Budget Committee’s “War on Poverty” hearing

August 19, 2016

Tianna Gaines-Turner was later featured on MSNBC by Melissa Harris-Perry

August 19, 2016

Senator Casey (PA) discusses the Witnesses to Hunger exhibit and the powerful project started by Dr. Mariana Chilton

August 19, 2016

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Children’s HealthWatch addressing food insecurity among families in Minneapolis, MN

August 19, 2016

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