Health Equity & Social Justice

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COVID-19 weighs heavily on Native foster youth and child protective services

Child welfare is an already stressed system in Native communities, leaving children even more susceptible to the impacts of COVID-19.

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

A city council meeting in Las Vegas, where every other row of seats was blocked off for social distancing.

COVID-19 is a big local story: Start documenting your community’s response

Now is the time to start building timelines and documenting how local governments are handling — or fumbling — the COVID-19 crisis.

Environmental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

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Are officials doing their job to ensure federally subsidized housing is safe?

How many other environmental disasters like the West Calumet Housing Complex are still undiscovered?

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

Latinos living along the border are facing dire challenges amid COVID-19

U.S.-Mexico border communities are facing dire challenges as the pandemic escalates.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Poverty and Class, Health Insurance and Costs

Self Care as Selfless Act: Mental Health at the Root of Activism

Activists in the Latinx immigrant community of Los Angeles share what they do to take care of their mental health.

Race and Equity, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Mental Health

SEVEN: ALEXIUS’ STORY

This week we’re at home with Alexius Hill, a Memphis-based young mother who chose to give birth at home despite her family and friends’ concerns about doing so. We discuss the stigma around home births and explore the radical work of full-spectrum doulas.

Race and Equity, Women's and Maternal Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform