In light of the November 7 mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California, the Center for Health Journalism is sharing some past reporting and resources for reporters who find themselves covering tragedies such as this.
Environmental Health
In reporting on complex disease outbreaks, it's worth examining deeper narratives that go beyond the convenient anecdote, writes journalist Lara Salahi.
For Hmong Americans, patchwork and embroidery are keys to preserving history and documenting the future.
At Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, all of the hospital’s employees get violence prevention and awareness training, but those who work in the emergency department get more.
Safe injection facilities represent the highest ideal of harm reduction services for people who inject drugs, yet in the United States remain almost prohibitively controversial.
A few days before Christmas in 2015, a 54-year-old immigrant named Jose Manuel Azurdia Hernandez began vomiting in his cell at a detention center in Adelanto, California.
This story was published with the support of the USC Annenberg National Health Fellowship and the Fund for Journalism on Child Well-Being.
"It was Laos, and the elders, that taught me that we create community and community creates us," writes Vlai Ly, a Hmong-American writer and photographer working in Sacramento.
Matthew S. Bajko is a recipient of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2017 California Fellowship.
Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.