News Article Mentions

• Mississippi midwives’ superpower: listening when doctors do not by Danielle Dreilinger, Andrea Kramar, and Mona Iskander, June 2023
• Senate revives plan to give postpartum Medicaid benefits to new mothers by Taylor Vance, March 2022
• An ACA overturn could threaten years of insurance gains, women’s health access, by Erica Hensley, November 2020
• Free Clinics Try To Fill Gaps As COVID Sweeps Away Job-Based Insurance, written by Michaela Gibson Morris, April 2020
• State medical board loosened telemedicine rules — then quietly changed some back, written by Erica Hensley, April 2020
• Mississippi workers are hit hardest by rising health insurance costs, study finds, written by Luke Ramseth Clarion-Ledger, December 2019
• Mississippi households carry heavy health insurance burden, written by Michaela Gibson Daily Journal, November 2019
• Employers, hospitals both getting pushed by rising costs, written by Michaela Gibson Morris Daily Journal, November 2019
• Health insurance rebates could be coming to a mailbox near you, written by Michaela Gibson Morris Daily Journal, October 2019
• Republican Remains Favored in ‘Surprisingly Competitive’ Mississippi Governor’s Race, written by Alexandra Desanctis National Review, October 2019
• Mississippi Governor Primary: Republican Favorite Is Forced Into Runoff, written by Richard Fausset The New York Times, August 2019
• April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for tobacco illnesses, but is it enough? written by Charles Betley The Conversation, April 2019
• Gov. Bryant quietly in talks about a Medicaid expansion plan for Mississippi,
  written by Larrison Campbell Mississippi Today, December 2018
• Sex education lessons from Mississippi and Nigeria, written by Rachael Sullivan Robinson The Conversation, July 2018
• Why Mississippi is the deadliest place to drive a car, written by Larrison Campbell Mississippi Today, July 2018
• 8 million kids could lose health insurance if the CHIP program isn’t renewed. Here’s what that looks like in one state, written by Laura Santhanam PBS News Hour, October 2017
• After Oktibbeha voters reject hospital sale, board OKs idea of allying with larger system, written by Larrison Campbell Mississippi Today, November 2017
• Community hospitals are on life support. Starkville voters could pull the plug, written by Larrison Campbell Mississippi Today, November 2017
• Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), posted by MSDH, June 2018
• Mississippi Taking Steps to Reduce Childhood Obesity, written by Brice Wiggins, JD AJMC, June 2017
• In the state with the highest medical debt, it’s the middle class who carries the burden, written by Max Blau PBS News Hour, March 2017
• $1.9 Million NIH Grant to Fund Children’s Health Research, written by Annie Oeth Ole Miss News, September 2016
• 3 obvious and not-so-obvious reasons hospitals close, written by Ayla Ellison Becker Hospital Review, May 2016
• Texting While Driving ‘A Public Health Threat’, written by Kathleen Louden Medscape, November 2015
• 31 Mississippi hospitals at risk of closing, written by Ayla Ellison Becker’s Hospital Review, November 2015
• Only 6% of uninsured Mississippians have gotten covered through healthcare reform. What gives? written by Jake McGraw ReThink Mississippi, March 2014
• How Obamacare Went South In Mississippi, written by Sarah Varney Kaiser News, November/December 2014
• Mississippi, Burned, How the poorest, sickest state got left behind by Obamacare, written by Sarah Varney Politico Magazine, November/December 2014
• In Mississippi, lack of school nurses a threat to health, education, written by Jackie Mader The Hechinger Report, November 2014
• Sex education stumbles in Mississippi, written by Alana Semuels Los Angeles Times, April 2014 
• Sex ed debate: Teaching about contraception is a key divide, written by Chris Kieffer Daily Journal, October 2013
• Wide swath of Mississippi could remain uninsured, written by Julie Appleby and Jay Hancock The Washington Post, June 2013
• For Many, Affordable Care Act Won’t Cover Bariatric Surgery, written by Sarah Varney NPR, May 2013
• Sex Education in Mississippi: Will a New Law Lower Teen Pregnancy Rates? written by Sarah Carr / The Hechinger Report TIME September 2012
• Healthy food study bill headed to Barbour’s desk, written by “topofthemorning” The Democrat, April 2011