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Center for Health Journalism Member Posts

The Center for Health Journalism invites journalists, policy thinkers and medical professionals to share their perspectives with our diverse and interdisciplinary community. Our member column captures a range of perspectives on health, health policy and health journalism. Interested in contributing? Reach out to editor@centerforhealthjournalism.org.

By George B. Sánchez-Tello
A report from the front lines of California’s Black mental health crisis.
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With heat waves now coinciding with California’s peak wildfire season, the workers who pick the nation’s produce face increasingly dangerous working conditions.
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Disasters in the form of wildfires, heatwaves and smoke days have exacerbated Sonoma's disparities of wealth, health and education.
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A new reporting project will look at how injuries and killings at the hands of L.A. County Sheriff Deputies impact the health of survivors, families and their communities.
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Five journalists will undertake ambitious explanatory and investigative reporting projects about California’s health challenges.
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Not only is the air quality decreasing, but the number of extreme heat events is on the rise. What will this mean for the health of nearby communities?
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"The question kept lingering in the back of my mind: What’s new about this story?"
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I’m writing this after six months of research, drafts and rewrites for my fellowship series about a new California health program called CalAIM, or California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal....
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The state will need to make major investments and policy shifts to meet the challenge.
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A reporter reflects on her journey through South Asian grocery stores in the Bay Area, where getting people to talk proved tricky.

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The Center for Health Journalism’s two-day symposium on domestic violence will provide reporters with a roadmap for covering this public health epidemic with nuance and sensitivity. The first day will take place on the USC campus on Friday, March 17. The Center has a limited number of $300 travel stipends for California journalists coming from outside Southern California and a limited number of $500 travel stipends for those coming from out of state. Journalists attending the symposium will be eligible to apply for a reporting grant of $2,000 to $10,000 from our Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund. Find more info here!

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