Health Equity & Social Justice

Up to a third of people in Navajo Nation today lack heating, plumbing, or fully equipped kitchens. Indoor toilets are a luxury. Roads are terrible. How have these people been forgotten for so long?

“The Children of Central City” is a powerful set of stories and videos that uncover the deep emotional and physical scars born by New Orleans’ most vulnerable kids.

In Appalachia, a legacy hospital system is failing to keep people well and remain solvent. Can a new modernized health system take its place?

This article was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism. 

This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being....

KPCC’s Priska Neely reports on one of the reasons it has been so hard to bring down the black infant mortality rate: systemic racism is at the heart of the issue.

The Neighborhood Atlas gives journalists an intriguing new tool to visualize how social advantages vary across cities and regions.

This project received support from the Center for Health Journalism's California Fellowship and its Fund for Journalism on Child Well-being.
Other stories in the series include:
 
Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. My family is part of this statistic
 
America's black babies are pay

This story was produced as part of a project for the 2017 California Data Fellowship, a program of the USC Center for Health Journalism.

The Castlemont neighborhood in East Oakland is known as a Best Babies Zone. The idea of this initiative is that improving life for everyone in the community will ultimately save babies.