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

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

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

The Center for Health Journalism is pleased to announce the selection of six California journalists who will be participating ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm a freelance health care journalist whose work focuses on helping consumers understand how to navigate the health care system, pay for health care, and make sense of health reform's impact. I also ...

I am a freelance opinion writer and my lived experience of being incarcerated informs my work. I was the first incarcerated person to have a regular byline in a publication outside the prison. That ...

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 ...

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 ...