Giles Bruce

I am a freelance reporter in the Chicago area who contributes to publications like Kaiser Health News and the Center for Health Journalism's Children's Health Matters blog. I previously worked the health beat as a staffer for The Times of Northwest Indiana and the Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World. I did a 2016 National Fellowship on the alarming number of infant deaths in Indiana, and a 2018 Data Fellowship on the high rates of child abuse and neglect in the state.

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Students listen to a lecture in March at Sarah Scott Middle School in Terre Haute. The city is the county seat of Vigo County.

Community & Public Health

Health Equity & Social Justice

Children & Families

Mental Health & Trauma

In one Indiana county, as many as 1 in 4 kids are subject of child neglect investigations

Vigo County had the highest rate of child neglect investigations in the state in 2017 — 238 for every 1,000 kids, a Times analysis of child welfare data found.

Environmental Health

Poverty and Class

Mental Health

Lori Proland speaks Friday at the Forum on Child Abuse and Neglect at Indiana University Northwest.

Children & Families

Mental Health & Trauma

Abuse victim in Gary: Treat child abuse, neglect like a deadly disease

What if the United States treated child abuse and neglect as if they were deadly diseases?

Mental Health

Tears flow as Adria Trader talks about how she lost her kids to the child welfare system.

'Punishing poverty': Is Indiana's child welfare system stacked against the poor?

Do Indiana parents now really mistreat their kids more than their counterparts just about everywhere else? Many experts say no.

Want to reduce child neglect? Put more money in the pockets of poor families

Child neglect is closely tied to poverty. By focusing on individual families accused of mistreating their kids, are we letting society off the hook?

Poverty and Class

Mental Health

An uninsured mother and her son wait at a free health clinic in Inglewood, California.

What works to boost children's health insurance? A tale of two states

A look at how the country’s two biggest states have insured their kids helps explain why nearly 4 million American children remain without health coverage.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Health Insurance and Costs

A baby recovers in the neonatal intensive care unit of an Indiana hospital in 2014. The state is among those that recently passe

When getting mom and baby to the right hospital is a matter of life or death

It's a high-stakes problem lawmakers across the country are increasingly trying to address.

Women's and Maternal Health

Why is Indiana flooded with cases of child abuse and neglect?

Why does Indiana have so many cases of child abuse and neglect? Only six states had more in 2016, and they all had much higher populations.

Environmental Health

Domestic Violence

Community Safety

A view of the Petersburg power plant located just miles from Washington, Indiana, which is located in the Indiana county.

Reporter questions assumptions to reveal hidden link between Indiana pollution and infant mortality

For reporter Giles Bruce, it wasn't until he jettisoned all his preconceived notions about what was driving Indiana's high infant death rate that he found his real story.

Environmental Health

Children & Families

Community & Public Health

Lawmakers want Indiana to do more to tackle infant mortality

This series was produced as a project for the University of Southern California Center for Health Journalism's National Fellowship.
Other stories in the series include:
Fort Wayne, Ind. mom shares tragic story of losing baby
In Indianapolis, a baby dies every 3 1/2 days

Nurse-Family Partnership nurse Amber Burleson shows D'Ondra Gomes, holding her 6-month-old son, Kai'Dian.

Children & Families

In Indianapolis, a baby dies every 3 1/2 days

In the past 30 years, Indianapolis' infant mortality rate has decreased by more than a third. But Indiana still has the second-highest black infant mortality rate in the country.

Women's and Maternal Health

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Giles Bruce

Articles

In one Indiana county, as many as 1 in 4 kids are subject of child neglect investigations

Abuse victim in Gary: Treat child abuse, neglect like a deadly disease

'Punishing poverty': Is Indiana's child welfare system stacked against the poor?

Want to reduce child neglect? Put more money in the pockets of poor families

What works to boost children's health insurance? A tale of two states

When getting mom and baby to the right hospital is a matter of life or death

Why is Indiana flooded with cases of child abuse and neglect?

Reporter questions assumptions to reveal hidden link between Indiana pollution and infant mortality

Lawmakers want Indiana to do more to tackle infant mortality

In Indianapolis, a baby dies every 3 1/2 days