Ryan White

Ryan White is content editor of CenterforHealthJournalism.org, where he oversees daily content across a range of health topics. He also is the lead for the Center’s Health Matters webinar series. Ryan has nearly two decades of experience reporting, writing and editing for newspapers in California, national magazines and online outlets. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2003, Ryan reported widely on the environment, local politics, urban planning, affordable housing and public health issues throughout the Bay Area and Los Angeles. In the past, he’s worked on KQED’s public television program “This Week in Northern California,” served as the editor of the Alameda Sun, worked as a reporter and editor for Marinscope Community Newspapers and freelanced for a long list of outlets. He was a 2012 California Fellow, reporting on the plight of the “anchor out” community in San Francisco Bay.

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Early childhood might not dictate your future, but it powerfully stacks the deck

New research based on a long-term study of New Zealanders finds that risk factors at age 3 reliably predict later-in-life convictions, hospitalizations and fatherless families.

Republicans shape agenda, but that doesn’t mean paid family leave is off the table

The U.S. is the only industrialized country without a paid family leave law. Trump has said he wants to change that. But will he?

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of Health and Human Services. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty I

What do new HHS picks signal for children’s health policy?

With the news of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for two big health-policy positions, we now have a few more tea leaves by which to ponder the future of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Poverty and Class

Health Insurance and Costs

Study highlights gains in children’s access to care since turn of millennium

A new study shows the gains made in getting kids to the doctor since the turn of the millennium, and clarifies what’s at stake should public coverage programs undergo significant cutbacks.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Health Insurance and Costs

Election result could have major implications for children’s coverage

What does Trump’s victory this week mean for children's health? We already have a few clues on how the GOP might seek to change the Children's Health Insurance Program and Medicaid.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Health Insurance and Costs

For first time, national data reveal just how hard foster care is on children’s health

A new analysis of national data reveals for the first time just a slew of disparities between the mental and physical health of children placed in foster care and otherwise similar kids.

Mental Health

The candidates field questions on children’s health, but have we learned anything?

How will the presidential candidates work to improve children's health? Trump touts Medicaid block grants and higher rates, while Clinton vows to push forward the Medicaid expansion and boost spending on early childhood programs.

Drug program for rare pediatric diseases gets reprieve, but does it work?

A program that creates market incentives to encourage drug makers to target rare pediatric diseases seemed like good policy at first. But evidence of the program's effectiveness is missing.

Healthcare Regulation and Reform

Chronic Disease

Opioid epidemic’s youngest victims are a growing group, new data show

New statistics show just how quickly rates of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome have risen over the past six years, particularly in largely rural states such as Kentucky. Here's why that's so worrying.

Half of fathers in lower-income countries don’t engage their kids, study finds

That's bad news, especially given ample research that has shown how critical engaging and speaking to young children is for building brains and spurring healthy development.

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Ryan White

Articles

Early childhood might not dictate your future, but it powerfully stacks the deck

Republicans shape agenda, but that doesn’t mean paid family leave is off the table

What do new HHS picks signal for children’s health policy?

Study highlights gains in children’s access to care since turn of millennium

Election result could have major implications for children’s coverage

For first time, national data reveal just how hard foster care is on children’s health

The candidates field questions on children’s health, but have we learned anything?

Drug program for rare pediatric diseases gets reprieve, but does it work?

Opioid epidemic’s youngest victims are a growing group, new data show

Half of fathers in lower-income countries don’t engage their kids, study finds