Our Work
Team CHI traveled throughout Colorado to identify the best ideas and programs for preventing youth from using and abusing substances for a new report commissioned by the Office of Behavioral Health.
You know you’re a health policy nerd when the back-and-forth action of this spring’s NCAA basketball tournament reminds you of public health legislation in Colorado. Wondering how action on the court translates to action at the state Capitol? I’ll explain.
Republicans and Democrats have taken turns advancing their offensive playbooks by introducing public health bills over the past couple years. But opponents have played solid defense, blocking the easy lay up to the governor’s desk.
Colorado's legislature is considering a bill that would establish a reinsurance program here. Would it help make insurance more affordable?
An innovative virtual dentistry program has brought dental care to 2,300 Coloradans who had little or no access to oral health care.
The legislature’s billion-dollar scramble is over, and health care missed out.
But public health advocates can still celebrate successes as the Senate gets ready today to take the last substantive votes on the 2018-19 state budget. (It’s House Bill 1322, in case you get the urge to read a 600-page spreadsheet.)
Colorado Reaches a Record High for Overdose Fatalities. Again.
More Coloradans have been dying of drug overdoses each year for nearly a decade. It’s a health crisis that’s been increasingly in the public eye, but the newest data are still startling: Some 912 people died of an overdose in 2016 – a state record. Preliminary data from 2017 suggest that more than 950 died of an overdose last year.
Living in some counties in southeastern Colorado means you're nearly twice as likely as the average Coloradan to die young.