A reporter seeks answers on the use of residential treatment programs nationwide — and the rationale for sending kids away ...

Violence prevention programs, particularly community-based interventions, can significantly reduce homicides and shootings in ...

Last year, I spoke with an Iowa mother who found her then-6-year-old son attempting to take his own life during a monthslong ...

Asian Americans, who make up 7% of the U.S. population, account for more than half of all chronic hepatitis B cases. Roughly ...

Asian Americans are disproportionately affected by hepatitis B, especially by chronic infections. Years of community work ...

I was about four hours away from home in a rural Nevada community in Elko County when a mother told me about her son, who died by suicide. Her son, a high school junior, walked into his parents’ room, ...

Lottie L. Joiner, a Washington, D.C.-based freelance writer, wrote this story while participating in the National Health Journalism Fellowship, a program of the University of Southern California’s ...

Gabriela Ramírez is a Venezuelan multimedia and investigative journalist based between Berlin and New York City. She specializes in cross-border collaborations that amplify underrepresented voices.

I'm one of the founding journalists at the USC Center for Health Reporting, a new program created to help improve health reporting in communities across California. We work with newspapers and other ...

Halle Parker covers environmental health and inequities in health care for Verite News. Before Verite, she reported on Louisiana's environment for New Orleans Public Radio as well as for the ...