Immigrant and Migrant Health

This story by Janine Zeitlin, a participant in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism's 2020 Data Fellowship.

A reporter reflects on lessons learned from an especially challenging story.

For my 2020 National Fellowship project, I wanted to cover all COVID-19 angles and regions along the 3000-mile U.S.-Mexico border, including the number of infections, reasons for disparities, multifamily dwellings, the fate of essential workers, the role played by preexisting conditions, and hospita

For two decades, victims of U.S. nuclear bomb tests fought to obtain the Medicaid eligibility that was promised them. In the waning days of 2020, they won.

It’s time to get good at talking about mental health.

This story was produced as a larger project by Tim O'Shei for the 2020 National Fellowship, which focuses on explaining the myriad mental health challenges refugees face and taking readers up close to those realities through the experience of families....

Successfully resettling refugees, which in Western New York is coordinated by a small group of local agencies, requires a complex set of community interactions.

The virus has sickened Filipinos disproportionately and led to widespread job losses.

To get through the crises generated by the pandemic and the holiday season, millions of unemployed or part-time workers are turning to food banks run by government agencies or charitable organizations.

This story was produced as part of a large project by Jessica Bedolla, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship, who is exploring, researching and reporting the impact of this worldwide pandemic in communities along the border. ...