Health
MLG talks about health gains in NM at Johns Hopkins talk
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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spoke at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health fireside chat Friday morning. She spoke about health policy solutions for New Mexico and beyond, as well as strategies for leading on public health and policy issues with host Ellen MacKenzie, the Bloomberg School Dean. “This is a country that could do far better in health outcomes and the underlying root cause for at least someone like me is the fact that we don’t respect public health initiatives and investments,” Lujan Grisham said. Lujan Grisham discussed many of the changes made during the 2023 legislative session including universal free meals for school children, protecting women’s reproductive rights and gender-affirming care and what the state is doing to expand rural broadband onto the state’s pueblo, nation and tribal lands. “We are running as fast as we can to get fiber to every household in the Navajo Nation,” Lujan Grisham said.