Environmental Health

Stick to the facts: Climate Central’s Bernadette Woods-Placky on how reporters can better cover climate change

We recently spoke with Brenda Woods-Placky, director of the Climate Matters program at Climate Central, to discuss how journalists can best report on the science and health impact of climate change.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Food and Nutrition, Community Safety

During the Flint water crisis, a reliance on zip codes led researchers to understimate the threat posed by lead in the water.

Where you live shapes your health, but don’t rely on zip codes to decode health disparities

When it comes to local communities, zip codes are rarely a good way to look for geographic differences, and can cloud whatever relationships a researcher might be looking for. Consider what happened in Flint.

Environmental Health

Food pantry in New Orlean's Central City

Reporting on children living in New Orleans' 'Triangle of Death'

Times-Picayune reporter Jonathan Bullington offers a behind-the-scenes look at his reporting with colleague Richard Webster on the trauma experienced by kids growing up in New Orleans' "Triangle of Death."

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Community Safety

While some states push for work requirements, Washington state is using Medicaid to get people housed

After the state expanded Medicaid under the ACA, Washington state health officials noticed that people who were focused on survival were letting their health needs fall by the wayside.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness

Homeless woman Caroline Francis places a platter of food for her neighbor on the street in downtown Los Angeles shortly before C

By putting housing first, LA’s homeless housing program lowers health care use and costs, research finds

New research from RAND finds LA's program to get people off the street and into permanent, supportive housing led to fewer heath visits and a net savings for the county.

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Mental Health

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep counselor Rochelle Gauthier gets a hug from a student during lunch at the school in New Orleans

Future of Crocker school's trauma-informed work questioned after layoffs

This story was produced as part of a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

Read related stories in this series here.

Environmental Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Community Safety

Perspective: The EPA says this pesticide won't be banned. That means these Central Valley cabbage pickers won’t be the last to be poisoned.

More than 50 farmworkers were exposed to the pesticide near Bakersfield, California, last spring.

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Environmental Health

Stick to the facts: Climate Central’s Bernadette Woods-Placky on how reporters can better cover climate change

Where you live shapes your health, but don’t rely on zip codes to decode health disparities

Reporting on children living in New Orleans' 'Triangle of Death'

While some states push for work requirements, Washington state is using Medicaid to get people housed

By putting housing first, LA’s homeless housing program lowers health care use and costs, research finds

Future of Crocker school's trauma-informed work questioned after layoffs

Perspective: The EPA says this pesticide won't be banned. That means these Central Valley cabbage pickers won’t be the last to be poisoned.

A fortuitous interview adds crucial perspective to story on Bay Area’s refinery emissions cap

How does the experience of migration impact children’s health?

When a rural North Carolina health clinic closes, patients and doctors feel the squeeze