Health Equity & Social Justice

This story was produced by Rubén Tapia with support from USC Center for Health Journalism's 2020 Impact Fund. His reporting looks at how delays in the cleanup of neighborhoods contaminated by emissions from the now-shuttered Exide battery recycling plant in LA is affecting the health of residents...

Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

This story was produced as a larger project by Valeria Fernandez for the 2020 National Fellowship, focusing on how indigenous, immigrant communities and people of color have been organizing before and during the pandemic in communities of care to find support and healing.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Immigrant and Migrant Health, Health Insurance and Costs, Healthcare Regulation and Reform

A group of Denver Post journalists led by health reporter Jessica Seaman spent much of the last year immersed in the subject of teen mental health and suicide, and today the paper is publishing the results of that project.

Mental Health, Healthcare Regulation and Reform, Health Insurance and Costs, Community Safety, Patient Safety and Ethics

How the massive CZU Lightning Complex fire could have lasting impacts on housing and homelessness.

Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental Health, Housing and Homeslessness, Community Safety