Health Equity & Social Justice

New solutions unveiled to curtail L.A. County’s Black infant and maternal death rates

Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Women's and Maternal Health

Deborah Bell-Holt and her granddaughter stand before an oil drilling site just blocks from her South Los Angeles home.

Toxic Pollutants a Growing Concern for Pregnant Mothers and Babies

Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.

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

I-TEAM: Richmond Co. students are stuck on a tier, former intervention teacher says

Early intervention is the key to keeping kids in school, and the Richmond County School System does that through a multi-tier level of support and services.

Poverty and Class, Housing and Homeslessness

Los Angeles County Struggling to Shrink Black Infant Death Rate

A pledge to sharply reduce infant mortality by 2023 faces daunting obstacles.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Women's and Maternal Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Chronic Disease

Cathedral City Senior Center outreach coordinator Laura Gutierrez, left, looks for information to hand out in Cathedral City, Ca

How Cathedral City Senior Center went from excluding Spanish speakers to embracing them

For years in the western Coachella Valley, residents who don’t speak English have been left out of senior centers — the same places where many older adults go when experiencing isolation, loneliness, and housing, food or income insecurity.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Aging