Community Engagement

To investigate LA’s failure to maintain hygiene stations, I had to learn a whole new skill set

A freelancer's neighborhood walks give rise to a story on LA's failure to maintain hygiene stations.

Children of color are disproportionately targeted by ads for misleading and potentially dangerous products.

What do you do for stories that have no available dataset — what if no one has asked people about the problem you want to investigate?

A reporter finds people are hungry for spaces to talk about the mental health challenges confronting their communities.

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

Addressing the long-standing divide between Black Americans and the medical community.

A reporter finds the limits of reporting from the living room and sets out for a Chicago classroom. The story she found made it all worth it.

COVID-19 has stolen attention from the addiction crisis — and made it worse

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

Are new policies from the nation’s largest group of physicians on race a game changer — or too little too late?

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

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

Step one: listen to community questions before asking your own.

Environmental Health