In a state known for innovation, maternal deaths still fall hardest on Black, Indigenous and low-income families.

Black gay men face major PrEP access gaps due to cost, stigma, mistrust, and provider silence—despite high HIV impact; ...

There’s growing evidence that medicine risks losing talent from poor and working-class, Black and Latino communities.

Are stricter felony drug possession penalties effective tools for propelling users into care? One reporter's deep dive raises serious doubts.

The USC Center for Health Journalism is pleased to announce the launch of the 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative, with a Feb.

Lauran Neergaard is a medical writer for The Associated Press. She joined the AP in Atlanta in 1989, and has covered health since 1992. Based in Washington since 1993, she currently covers public ...

James E. Causey co-authors the Center for Health Journalism's Health Divide weekly column. He is an award-winning special projects reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and a Senior Fellow for ...

Mary Otto is a former Washington Post Reporter and winner of the 2010 Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement for her reporting on dental care for the poor, she is now on sabbatical authoring a book on ...

Sarah Macaraeg is an investigative reporter in Memphis with The Commercial Appeal/USA Today network. Her stories have resulted in the elimination of phone fees charged juvenile detainees in Shelby ...

Roger Smith joined the Center for Health Reporting in 2013 after 35 years as an editor and reporter with the Los Angeles Times. He became national editor of the Times the week after Barak Obama was ...

JoAnn Mar is an award-winning radio producer/journalist and has produced in-depth documentaries and feature reports on various public interest topics such as end of life care, criminal justice and ...