Nada Hassanein
Reporter
Reporter
Nada Hassanein is a health care reporter for Stateline with a focus on inequities. Previously, she was a USA TODAY reporter focusing on environmental and health inequities. Previously, she was a social issues reporter at the Tallahassee Democrat, covering immigration, health, domestic violence and issues affecting marginalized communities. Hassanein was a 2022 Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems grantee, and before that, she was a 2019 Center for Health Journalism National Fellow and reported a project that focused on socioeconomic factors that impact children’s health disparities in Tallahassee.
A third of Black women in the state's only majority-minority Gadsden County have been diagnosed with diabetes, according to state data.
The 32304 zip code was cited by the Florida Chamber of Commerce as one of extreme poverty, but the state lacks granular data on kids' health there.
This zip code has more poor households than anywhere else in Florida. The coronavirus outbreak has only made it worse.
Riley Principal April Knight knows the struggles kids growing up in 32304's public housing projects face to be healthy. She was one of them.
Lacking access to a primary doctor or not having a car has been has prevented many poor residents from getting tested so far. The result, local experts say, is cases flying under the radar.
A new metric aims to be a more accurate tool for detecting missed meals and fighting hunger throughout Florida.
Two children are born in Tallahassee: one lives in the ZIP code 32304, the other in 32312. They only live 24 miles apart, yet their experiences growing up are as if they were born in separate countries.