Community & Public Health

Is this family breathing in this runner’s plume? Or are the rules outside fundamentally different?

What I learned from my anxious experiment in masked running through Seattle

A simple jog turns into an anxious minefield in the absence of clear guidance on COVID-19 transmission.

Patient Safety and Ethics

How the pandemic has devastated San Francisco’s Asian communities

A reporter explores how the COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately impacting the Bay Area's Asian communities.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Patient Safety and Ethics, Aging

THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ HAVE PARTNERED IN A NEW MANAGED ENCAMPMENT IN SAN LORENZO PARK.

Activists: Don’t Blow Another Opportunity on Homelessness

A pandemic, a shift in homeless services and two new reports.

Poverty and Class, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Housing and Homeslessness, Mental Health, Community Safety

Bruce Anderson, Hawaii's health director.

Pandemic is disproportionately hurting Hawaii's Pacific Islander and Filipino communities

Despite Hawaii’s reputation as a racial paradise, the state is home to striking income disparities that fall along racial and ethnic lines.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Chronic Disease, Aging

After Gov. David Ige removed access to public health insurance for poor, sick migrants from Micronesia, many died

Hawaii Wanted To Save Insurance Money. People Died

A new study shows the impacts of a 2015 decision to cut health insurance for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

Will Pharmacist Resistance Hamper Law to Expand Access to HIV Prevention Meds?

Pre-exposure prophylaxis can save lives, but patients seeking the medications face numerous obstacles.

Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

From cradle to grave, racial inequity is part of the Black Charlotte experience

A new reporting project asks, "Why do people of color in an affluent city lack basic medical attention?"

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Food and Nutrition

-Window Rock, Ariz. (Photo: Jonathan Dineyazhe)

The People vs. the Pandemic: Overlooked

Why was the Navajo Nation overlooked in the face of the pandemic?

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Patient Safety and Ethics

Why was the Navajo Nation overlooked in the face of the pandemic?

In hard-hit Navajo Nation, fighting COVID-19 means addressing a long history of underinvestment and policy neglect.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Mental Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Patient Safety and Ethics

How immigrants and communities of color organize around healing justice

COVID-19 has underscored the disparities faced by immigrant communities in access to medical care and financial support in the state.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Mental Health, Women's and Maternal Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Chronic Disease, Food and Nutrition, Aging

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Community & Public Health

What I learned from my anxious experiment in masked running through Seattle

How the pandemic has devastated San Francisco’s Asian communities

Activists: Don’t Blow Another Opportunity on Homelessness

Pandemic is disproportionately hurting Hawaii's Pacific Islander and Filipino communities

Hawaii Wanted To Save Insurance Money. People Died

Will Pharmacist Resistance Hamper Law to Expand Access to HIV Prevention Meds?

From cradle to grave, racial inequity is part of the Black Charlotte experience

The People vs. the Pandemic: Overlooked

Why was the Navajo Nation overlooked in the face of the pandemic?

How immigrants and communities of color organize around healing justice