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PHI’s Community Transformation Grant Works to Reduce Barriers to Health in Mendocino and Other Rural Counties

"What we're trying to do is start at the local level and build healthy, safe communities and neighborhoods and reduce health disparities in one form or another," said Mary Pittman, president and chief executive officer of the Public Health Institute. The Oakland nonprofit and the state's Department of Public Health are administering the grant.

“What we’re trying to do is start at the local level and build healthy, safe communities and neighborhoods and reduce health disparities in one form or another,” said Mary Pittman, president and chief executive officer of the Public Health Institute. The Oakland nonprofit and the state’s Department of Public Health are administering the grant.

Originally published by San Francisco Chronicle


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