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Announces the new Indigenous Data Sovereignty Policy, believed to be the first in the nation to formalize how tribal health data is managed between the government and tribal nations. Describes how the policy will be rolled out in phases as well as how the policy was created collaboratively between the state and tribal nations.
A federal judge on Wednesday said that she won’t pause her decision to turn over control of the healthcare system in Arizona prisons to an outside supervisor because it’s clear to her that doing so is the fastest — and perhaps only — way to ensure that sick and injured prisoners don’t have their constitutional […]
Democratic U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego donated $17,500 his campaign received from executives for surveillance company Palantir to help undocumented immigrants, the Arizona Mirror has learned. Gallego donated the campaign money to the Arizona Undocumented Workers Relief Fund, a spokesperson for the senator confirmed to the Mirror. All of those contributions came directly from the company’s […]
Describes examples of state initiatives regarding community health workers (CHWs) outlined in Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) applications from Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Includes results of a scan of CHW proposals for each state with a publicly available RHTP application. -- National Academy for State Health Policy
Flagstaff AZ August 26, 2026