Giving pedestrians a 7-second head start at traffic lights—known as Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPIs)—is associated with a ...

The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to the country’s difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first months ...

The panel, created by Mayor Eric Adams, said it would introduce other ballot initiatives, but not a proposal that would allow ...

The idea has generated buzz since Zohran Mamdani won the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, but there are few successful examples to draw from, experts say.

SNAP-Ed funds nutrition education, and anti-obesity initiatives, reaching more than 2 million New Yorkers last year. Under ...

The Hub in the South Bronx, centered around East 149th Street and Third Avenue, has become ground zero in New York City’s ...

Just as a doctor might diagnose a patient based on symptoms and environmental exposures, Houghton and Castillo-Salgado’s ...

The Citywide Doula Initiative, which launched in 2022, works with community-based organizations to provide free doula care to ...

Former CDC director Tom Frieden explains the damage RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are doing to public health.

According to Daliah Heller, vice president of overdose prevention initiatives at the global public health nonprofit Vital Strategies, naloxone distribution used to be determined by state ...

The NYC Health Department has complied a list of resources, as well as guidance to protect one’s mental, sexual, and physical health during Pride Month.