Community & Public Health

Photo of a Factory taken behind a fence

How Our Environment Gets Under Our Skin

A growing body of research over the past decade has begun to tease out the ways the experience of geography and discrimination affect physiology and health. Neighborhood conditions, access to healthy food, the experience of race and class — such forces can influence everything from average lifespan

(Image: Park plan created by the City of Santa Rosa for Roseland Creek Community Park. Different segments of the community, with

Informe Program at KBBF Tackles Health: En Español

This work is supported by a grant from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund....

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Food and Nutrition, Community Safety