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An October 13 article on the State of Reform website highlighted data from the 2021 Colorado Health Access Survey that was published in CHI’s report, Racial Discrimination and Access to Care in Colorado. Both the report and the article discuss the need to address racial discrimination in the health care system. 

El seminario web Eggheads de septiembre destacará dos programas de embajadores comunitarios de MDPH, y su impacto. Únase a nosotros para obtener más información sobre los antecedentes de los programas, y las mejores prácticas para el reclutamiento, el compromiso y la colaboración con las organizaciones comunitarias.

Communications Director Joe Hanel was interviewed for an August 12 9News segment about Arzelle Lewis, a Denverite and entrepreneur whose nonprofit is giving shoes to kids and improving mental health in some of the metro area’s most impoverished neighborhoods. 

The Colorado Sun reprinted climate-risk maps from CHI’s 2022 Health and Climate Index and interviewed Senior Policy Analyst Karam Ahmad for this story about the health dangers of heat and how Colorado can prepare for hotter summers.

Director of Policy Analysis Emily Johnson was interviewed for this July 31 Denver Post story which explained the significant impact of COVID-19 on the number of deaths in the state. 

CHI Policy Analyst Chrissy Esposito offered her insight into the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on poverty, the cost of living, and other challenges facing Coloradans 65 and older in this July 8 Denver VOICE article.

An article by Colorado Politics used data from CHI's 2022 ARPA Financial Maps to report on Colorado's spending of $9.59 billion of federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act.

CHI is releasing an interactive graphic that tracks more than $9 billion in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to the programs that ultimately will use it