Angela Johnston
Reporter
Reporter
Angela Johnston is KALW's health reporter. She’s won multiple awards for her reporting, and she's covered everything from childhood lead-poisoning in the Bay Area to a small buck-tooth rodent’s threat to the levees and farms across California. Her work has been picked up by KQED, Reveal and other regional and national outlets. In addition to her reporting, Angela has worked as an editor and a mentor with KALW's training program. She also regularly goes into San Quentin to train and edit incarcerated reporters and has helped launch the podcast Uncuffed.
In the end, taking the time to find the right characters and sources paid off.
When Dr. Josh Bamberger was starting his medical career in the Tenderloin, he wished he could offer something more to his sickest homeless patients. Now he can.
A pilot program with San Mateo County’s public health plan aims to stop the revolving door between the emergency room, nursing home and street.
This is the first of a three-part series, Housing As Healthcare: How Housing Can Save Seniors' Lives, produced by Angela Johnston while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2021 California Fellowship.
Many of the solutions designed to address homelessness in previous decades were not designed to address problems of aging.