Boston Public Health Commission

Across the city, the BPHC is holding free clinics, offering residents the opportunity to get a flu or COVID shot in response to an “extreme uptick” in cases, said Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, the city’s public health commissioner.

Under a campaign called the Live Long and Well Agenda, the city is looking to target overdose deaths, cardiometabolic diseases and preventable cancers — conditions that disproportionately affect communities of color and that the commission has identified as the leading causes of premature death in those communities of color.

Boston families who’ve lost loved ones to opioid overdose deaths can find a little support from the city through a new fund announced by the Boston Public Health Commission.

For Black communities, local and national statistics have identified disparities in maternal health outcomes and transmission rates of sexually transmitted infections. A program launched by ABCD aims to close some of those gaps by increasing free, around-the-clock access to reproductive health supplies through vending machines installed at three of its program sites.

For four organizations in Boston, new vending machines won’t mean a snack to crunch on but rather access to opioid overdose-reversing medications and other harm reduction supplies.

As evening fell on Dec. 5, over a hundred Boston teens packed into a warmly lit space down the block from Boston City Hall.

Residents, families and business owners expressed concerns during a Boston City Council meeting last week about what they say is an increase in drug activity in their neighborhoods.

A jam-packed room came together Oct. 4 for the EmpowerHer conference, a health equity conference focused on the health of Black women.

COVID-19 levels in Boston’s wastewater jumped 163% from May to July, according to data released Thursday by the Boston Public Health Commission.

Opioid overdose deaths among communities of color across the state rose in 2023, even as the number of deaths overall saw its biggest drop in over a decade, according to new statistics from the state Department of Public Health.

From the top floor of 1010 Massachusetts Ave., where she heads the Boston Public Health Commission, Dr. Bisola Ojikutu is a long way from the South Side of Chicago, where she grew up surrounded by a distrust of the medical system.

Leaders in health-related fields called for increased collaboration and broad structural change at the second annual Health Equity Trends Summit on June 6.