The Wu administration is directing $5 million in grant funding toward community organizations with the aim of narrowing a life expectancy gap in three low-income neighborhoods where residents die ...

Boston will launch a new health equity initiative to address improve and address disparities in life expectancy across the city, Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Public Health Commission announced.

BOSTON – Huong Vu can regularly be found inside the Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester, explaining how she left her native Vietnam for Boston 12 years ago. Her story of how it can be challenging to ...

The Globe’s recent article about the Boston Public Health Commission’s report on widening life-expectancy gaps should not come as a surprise (“Boston moves to close life expectancy gap,” Metro, March ...