Immigrant and Migrant Health

COVID-19 rates in Hawaii are going up and Pacific Islander communities are hard hit.

Community Leaders: State Is Failing Pacific Islanders In The Pandemic

Pacific Islanders — not including Native Hawaiians — make up 30% of Hawaii’s coronavirus cases but only 4% of the population.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Coronavirus Files: Most Americans Support Bold Government Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Each Monday, while the pandemic runs its course, The Coronavirus Files will provide tips and resources and highlight exemplary work to help you with your reporting.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

Francisca Porchas Coronado in the center to the left with therapists from the Network of Latinx Counselors in Action from Arizon

Pioneering study on how the pandemic affects the mental health of Latinos

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disproportionately affect Latinos. Although doctors continue to advance with physical recovery therapies after infection, little is known about the consequences in mental health.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Mental Health

(Photo by David Wilson via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Are officials doing their job to ensure federally subsidized housing is safe?

How many other environmental disasters like the West Calumet Housing Complex are still undiscovered?

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Patient Safety and Ethics

Latinos living along the border are facing dire challenges amid COVID-19

U.S.-Mexico border communities are facing dire challenges as the pandemic escalates.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs

Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism

Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Mental Health

How the pandemic has devastated San Francisco’s Asian communities

A reporter explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Bay Area's Asian communities.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

Bruce Anderson, Hawaii's health director.

Pandemic is disproportionately hurting Hawaii's Pacific Islander and Filipino communities

Despite Hawaii’s reputation as a racial paradise, the state is home to striking income disparities that fall along racial and ethnic lines.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Chronic Disease, Aging

A volunteer participating in Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine trial receives a shot in South Africa on June 24.

Recruiting Black volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials means overcoming mistrust

The ugly history of clandestine experiments and abuse of Black patients casts a long shadow.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

(Photo by Ricky Shore via Flickr/Creative Commons)

‘We need your help.’ Are refugees getting mental-health assistance they need?

Refugees need help with mental health care, but are they getting it? A reporter plots a deeper exploration of their plight.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

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Immigrant and Migrant Health

Community Leaders: State Is Failing Pacific Islanders In The Pandemic

Coronavirus Files: Most Americans Support Bold Government Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Pioneering study on how the pandemic affects the mental health of Latinos

Are officials doing their job to ensure federally subsidized housing is safe?

Latinos living along the border are facing dire challenges amid COVID-19

Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism

How the pandemic has devastated San Francisco’s Asian communities

Pandemic is disproportionately hurting Hawaii's Pacific Islander and Filipino communities

Recruiting Black volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials means overcoming mistrust

‘We need your help.’ Are refugees getting mental-health assistance they need?