Environmental Health

Mai Yang, a Hmong refugee who’s father was killed fighting for the CIA’s “Secret Army,” sits remembering those days in her home

The war inside

Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.

Race and Equity, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Community Safety
Peer volunteer Jamie and program coordinator Jessica Smith at the Humboldt Area Center for Harm Reduction.

Drug users fight for acceptance in California’s deep north

Judith Lewis Mernit’s reporting on harm reduction in rural California was supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 Impact Fund.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics
The activists leading an Idaho ballot initiative on Medicaid expansion have taken to the road in the Medicaid Mobile, now a fami

The ballot revolt to bring Medicaid expansion to Trump country

An Idaho native helping to lead the effort to bring more health care to lower-income residents gave a blunt assessment: “It’s a tragedy if we lose,” he said. “If we win, we make history.”

Environmental Health, Health Insurance and Costs