Environmental Health

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.

in 2017, the rate of suicide attempts for Hispanic teens in Texas was 11.4 percent, compared with 8.2 percent nationally, according to data from the CDC.

When I set out early this year to uncover gaps in mental health care services in one Bay Area county, I was utterly unprepared for just how deep the problems ran.

Molly is one of the recipients of the 2018 Impact Fund, a program of USC Annenberg's Center for Health Journalism....

Why does Indiana have so many cases of child abuse and neglect? Only six states had more in 2016, and they all had much higher populations.