Health Equity & Social Justice

This project was produced as project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 National Fellowship and its Kristy Hammam Fund for Health Journalism....

This project was produced as project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2022 National Fellowship and its Kristy Hammam Fund for Health Journalism.

A deeper look into the past of Cambodian refugees in California's Central Valley shows how they’ve rebuilt their lives decades after resettling in the U.S.

For those who survived the trauma of the Khmer Rouge genocide, mental health treatment remains a dire need. A program in Oakland is succeeding in reaching Cambodians at risk in this refugee community.

The lack of providers who speak Khmer is cited as one of the factors keeping more Cambodian refugees from receiving treatment.

How are we supposed to cover the community as a whole when we can’t communicate with a large portion of its residents?

Ariel Hart’s reporting on gaps in medical services in Georgia was undertaken as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2022 National Fellowship....

This lack of access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, education or waste management is referred to as period poverty, or menstrual poverty.

The change follows a Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last year that documented the impact of “dead end” drug arrests in which people are briefly locked up, only to see the charges soon dismissed.

While the market is crowded with companies claiming their products meaningfully improve health — especially for underserved groups — there is still no standard slate of metrics to evaluate them.