Jillian Taylor
Reporter for StateImpact OklahomaJillian Taylor reports on health and related topics for StateImpact Oklahoma. She is a recent graduate of the Gaylord College of Journalism at the University of Oklahoma with practical experience at the Tulsa World and nonprofit The Frontier. She calls Colleyville, Texas her hometown, in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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Oklahoma seniors are expected to outnumber children in the next ten years. Oklahoma Human Services is creating a plan to prepare for this shift, and it’s seeking the perspectives of the state’s seniors in a survey due on Friday.
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Oklahoma Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin criticized an Alabama Supreme Court ruling defining frozen embryos as children.
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An analysis by the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative found a legislative investment in Oklahoma’s behavioral health workforce could add 272 providers to the state.
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On March 2, the Oklahoma Mothers Milk Bank will celebrate ten years of supporting babies parents with over 1 million ounces of donor milk dispensed since its inception.
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A bill advanced in the Oklahoma Legislature that would require sixth through twelfth grade schools to provide free menstrual products.
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OU Health is teaching a group of Ukrainian surgeons how to perform reconstructive surgery amid the war between Russia and Ukraine.
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A bill advanced Tuesday that would require parents to opt their kids into sex ed and change the type of education parents are opting their kids into.
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A bill that would allow pharmacists to dispense certain types of birth control passed unanimously through the House Health and Human Services Committee Wednesday.
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Abortion restrictions, the ongoing opioid crisis and access to mental healthcare are in focus this legislative session. Jillian Taylor is StateImpact Oklahoma’s health reporter, and spoke with managing editor Logan Layden about what to expect from lawmakers in 2024.
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The Oklahoma State Department of Health and its Office of Primary Care launched a loan repayment program for health professionals working in shortage areas.