Environmental Health

Situ and Xiaolin’s family stayed in the tiny room for nearly an entire year

Fighting COVID-19: One Community

Shiqiao Peng produced this story as part of her participation in the 2020 National Fellowship, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Mental Health, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging
Michael still has a Lakeside Academy hat and sweatshirt from his time at the facility.

Far from home, far from safe

California sent more than 1,000 vulnerable children to out-of-state facilities run by a for-profit company. Reports of rampant abuse followed. Now, confronted with a Chronicle and Imprint investigation, the state is bringing every child home.

Environmental Health, Mental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Man folds hands to pray

COVID-19's toll on more than 1,000 Mississippi's chicken plant employees

This article by Alissa Zhu was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2020 National Fellowship.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
Newark has suffered the most COVID-19 deaths and cases in New Jersey.

Crossroads of a plague

The worst pandemic in a century has ravaged Newark and its Black community. It was a tragedy decades in the making.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform