Susan Abram

Experts explain how bias in medical care leads to illness, death, and wide health disparities.

Sociologist Manuel Pastor on why it would be a huge mistake to go “back to the way we were before COVID-19."

Educators in low-income communities embraced meditation as a way to help students manage stress and anxiety in school. Can it help kids cope with being stuck at home?

Even when sick, immigrant workers often feel like they have no choice but to show up at the job — they have to work to survive.

After coming out as gay or transgender, many young people are cut off from friends during the pandemic and trapped in homes where nobody accepts them.

“It's overwhelming,” one diaper bank director said. “We're trying to do the best we can.”

Crippling anxiety and depression, lost loved ones, selling sex acts to survive — vulnerable teens are facing a world of pain during the pandemic, explains Dr. Angela Diaz.

Friendship Line California relieves loneliness for older adults isolated at home. That makes it easier to stay there.

Thousands of Los Angeles residents have received word that their medical debt has been paid by benefactors, highlighting an ongoing crisis.

A special edition of Health Affairs explores the long shadow of violence on health — and how public policy might respond.