AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoAffordable, heat-ready housing: Durham’s Alma Street Commons broke ground as North Carolina’s first Living Building Challenge-certified affordable development, using sustainable materials and designed for extreme heat so residents can keep cool—an explicit health move as the state expects 90+ days above 90°F. Local health system scrutiny: Wake County leaders grilled health executives over a proposed WakeMed–Atrium Health combination, with concerns ranging from competition to possible insurance cost increases for state workers. Rural EMS + addiction care: NCDHHS announced $10 million to expand the EMS workforce and bolster rural behavioral health and substance-use treatment through Mobile Integrated Health programs. Public health policy: A new global study finds sugar-sweetened beverage taxes are spreading fast—64 countries adopted them from 1990 to 2024—driven more by obesity and type 2 diabetes burdens than by drink consumption rates. Workforce + care access: A federal judge struck down Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee as an unlawful tax, a win for hospitals and other employers relying on skilled foreign workers. STEM for health innovation: N.C. A&T won approval to launch the state’s first standalone HBCU Ph.D. in bioengineering, aiming to expand research capacity in human health and biotech.
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