Community & Public Health

San Francisco-based writer and editor Linda Jue responds to the verbal attacks, intimidation and physical assaults Asians have faced in the country, which have intensified during the pandemic.

"My grief and frustration over JJ’s fate were compounded by all I learned about the effects of toxic stress on a developing brain."

USC professor Alissa V. Richardson on why cellphone videos of vigilante violence and fatal police encounters should be viewed like lynching photographs – with solemn reserve and careful circulation - and how people became so comfortable viewing black people’s dying moments in the first place.

The chief of a domestic violence unit joined reporters from The Wall Street Journal and NBC News to share insights for covering this urgent story right now.

We'd hope that COVID-19 models would give us predictions akin to weather forecasts, but human behavior complicates that.

Utah has the lowest smoking rate in the nation, yet the biggest source of cancer deaths in the state is lung cancer. How can that be?

With school cafeterias shuttered, unemployment shattering records, and food bank lines stretching for miles, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in soaring levels of child hunger and food insecurity in families across the nation. One recent survey of mothers with young children found that kids weren’t

COVID-19 testing varies widely across San Diego senior facilities. The state and county aim to induce widespread testing in senior homes, but advocates say these efforts are moving too slowly and lack teeth.

A look at how homelessness reporters are approaching the beat during the pandemic.

While stay-at-home orders have helped flatten the COVID-19 curve, they present grave new dangers for victims of domestic violence who suddenly find themselves locked down with their abusers. Cities across the country have reported an uptick in domestic violence calls, and some providers report see